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GENDER EQUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT, 2012

Publisher: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
Author: Team led by Ana Revenga and Sudhir Shetty, and comprising Luis Benveniste, Aline Coudouel, Jishnu Das, Markus Goldstein, Ana María Muñoz Boudet, and Carolina Sánchez-Páramo
Type: Report
Date: 2011
Location in CRTDA: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/Complete-Report.pdf
The main message of this year’s World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development is that these patterns of progress and persistence in gender equality matter, both for development outcomes and policy making. They matter because gender equality is a core development objective in its own right. But greater gender equality is also smart economics, enhancing productivity and improving other development outcomes, including prospects for the next generation and for the quality of societal policies and institutions. Economic development is not enough to shrink all gender disparities—corrective policies that focus on persisting gender gaps are essential. This Report points to four priority areas for policy going forward. First, reducing gender gaps in human capital—specifi cally those that address female mortality and education. Second, closing gender gaps in access to economic opportunities, earnings, and productivity. Third, shrinking gender differences in voice and agency within society. Fourth, limiting the reproduction of gender inequality across generations. These are all areas where higher incomes by themselves do little to reduce gender gaps, but focused policies can have a real impact. Public actions need to address the underlying determinants of gender gaps in each priority area—in some cases, improving service delivery (especially for clean water, sanitation, and maternal care), for others, tackling constraints that originate in the workings of markets and institutions to limit progress (for example, in reducing gender gaps in earnings and productivity).

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