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This Briefing Paper contributes to the global conversation on how States and businesses can use the gender lens to ensure that policies and practices create an enabling environment for gender equality and women’s empowerment. It focuses on six priority issues affecting Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) women workers: 1. Sexual harassment and violence against women; 2. Discrimination; 3. Concentration of unpaid care work on women and girls; 4. Absence or invisibility of women in agriculture value chains; 5. Lack or absence of property rights 6. Difficulty in accessing state and non-state remedy mechanisms when their rights are violated.