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Empowering Women Is Smart Economics

Finance & Development, 2012-03, Vol.49 (1), p.40

Copyright International Monetary Fund Mar 2012 ;ISSN: 0015-1947 ;EISSN: 1564-5142 ;CODEN: FNDVAM

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  • Title:
    Empowering Women Is Smart Economics
  • Author: Revenga, Ana ; Shetty, Sudhir
  • Subjects: Developing countries ; Earnings ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Equality ; Gender differences ; Informal economy ; International ; Labor force ; LDCs ; Policy making ; Productivity
  • Is Part Of: Finance & Development, 2012-03, Vol.49 (1), p.40
  • Description: Going back a mere quarter century, inequality between women and men was widely apparent. Since then, the lives of women and girls around the world have improved dramatically in many respects. In most countries they are going to school more, living longer, getting better jobs, and acquiring legal rights and protections. But large gender gaps remain. According to the World Bank's 2012 World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development, closing these gender gaps matters for development and policymaking. To bring about gender equality, policymakers need to focus their actions on five clear priorities: reducing the excess mortality of girls and women; eliminating remaining gender disadvantages in education; increasing women's access to economic opportunity and thus earnings and productivity; giving women an equal voice in households and societies; and limiting the transmission of gender inequality across generations. And while so much remains to be done, in many ways the world has already changed by finally recognizing that gender equality is good for both women and men.
  • Publisher: Washington: International Monetary Fund
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0015-1947
    EISSN: 1564-5142
    CODEN: FNDVAM
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
    Alma/SFX Local Collection
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