Gender at Work : Emerging Messages

Good jobs bring gains for women themselves, as well as for their families, businesses, and communities. They boost self-esteem and pull households out of poverty. Yet gender disparities persist in the world of work. Closing these gaps, while working to expand job growth more broadly, is a prerequisi...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Brief
Language:	en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	access to land barriers to women career advancement child development childhood crops customary laws dependency ratio developing countries discrimination dropout economic opportunities economic opportunities for women Education systems elderly elderly people elderly women EQUALITY AT WORK families family law Father Female female clientele Female employees Female entrepreneurs Female farmers female labor female labor force female labor force participation female teachers females Gender gender assessment gender biases gender differences gender disparities GENDER EQUALITY gender gap Gender gaps Gender inequality gender-based violence girls health decisions homes household assets husbands incomes Inequalities informal sector inheritance integration integration of gender job opportunities labor force labor force participation labor market laws life skills Old-age pension pensions primary school private sector productivity progress promoting gender equality proportion of women salaried workers secondary school self-esteem sex skills development Social norms status of women unemployment urban women violence wage gap will women entrepreneurs working women World Health Organization World Population young women youth
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spelling	okr-10986-171052021-04-23T14:03:34Z Gender at Work : Emerging Messages World Bank access to land barriers to women career advancement child development childhood crops customary laws dependency ratio developing countries discrimination dropout economic opportunities economic opportunities for women Education systems elderly elderly people elderly women EQUALITY AT WORK families family law Father Female female clientele Female employees Female entrepreneurs Female farmers female labor female labor force female labor force participation female teachers females Gender gender assessment gender biases gender differences gender disparities GENDER EQUALITY gender gap Gender gaps Gender inequality gender-based violence girls health decisions homes household assets husbands incomes Inequalities informal sector inheritance integration integration of gender job opportunities labor force labor force participation labor market laws life skills Old-age pension pensions primary school private sector productivity progress promoting gender equality proportion of women salaried workers secondary school self-esteem sex skills development Social norms status of women unemployment urban women violence wage gap will women entrepreneurs working women World Health Organization World Population young women youth Good jobs bring gains for women themselves, as well as for their families, businesses, and communities. They boost self-esteem and pull households out of poverty. Yet gender disparities persist in the world of work. Closing these gaps, while working to expand job growth more broadly, is a prerequisite for ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Gender equality in the world of work is a win-win on many fronts. There is a large and growing body of evidence that demonstrates both the business and the development case. A Goldman Sachs study found that narrowing the gender gap in employment could push income per capita in emerging markets up to 14 percent higher by 2020. Almost half of women's productive potential globally is unutilized, compared to 22 percent of men. Yet across 42 countries, 35 percent of employers report difficulty filling key jobs. Following the World Development Report (WDR) 2013, 'jobs' are broadly defined to include various forms of wage and non-wage work, formal and informal. 2014-02-19T16:29:13Z 2014-02-19T16:29:13Z 2013-10-16 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17105 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research
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topic	access to land barriers to women career advancement child development childhood crops customary laws dependency ratio developing countries discrimination dropout economic opportunities economic opportunities for women Education systems elderly elderly people elderly women EQUALITY AT WORK families family law Father Female female clientele Female employees Female entrepreneurs Female farmers female labor female labor force female labor force participation female teachers females Gender gender assessment gender biases gender differences gender disparities GENDER EQUALITY gender gap Gender gaps Gender inequality gender-based violence girls health decisions homes household assets husbands incomes Inequalities informal sector inheritance integration integration of gender job opportunities labor force labor force participation labor market laws life skills Old-age pension pensions primary school private sector productivity progress promoting gender equality proportion of women salaried workers secondary school self-esteem sex skills development Social norms status of women unemployment urban women violence wage gap will women entrepreneurs working women World Health Organization World Population young women youth
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description	Good jobs bring gains for women themselves, as well as for their families, businesses, and communities. They boost self-esteem and pull households out of poverty. Yet gender disparities persist in the world of work. Closing these gaps, while working to expand job growth more broadly, is a prerequisite for ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Gender equality in the world of work is a win-win on many fronts. There is a large and growing body of evidence that demonstrates both the business and the development case. A Goldman Sachs study found that narrowing the gender gap in employment could push income per capita in emerging markets up to 14 percent higher by 2020. Almost half of women's productive potential globally is unutilized, compared to 22 percent of men. Yet across 42 countries, 35 percent of employers report difficulty filling key jobs. Following the World Development Report (WDR) 2013, 'jobs' are broadly defined to include various forms of wage and non-wage work, formal and informal.
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Gender at Work : Emerging Messages

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