Belarus Country Gender Profile, 2016 Update

Belarus Country Gender Profile, 2016 Update

Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also a smartdevelopment policy. Gender equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reductionand shared prosperity. This update to the ‘2013 Belarus Country Gen...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
GENDER
AGENCY
VOICE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
LABOR MARKET
EMPLOYMENT
ACCESS TO FINANCE
EDUCATION
POVERTY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/517311540825877515/Belarus-Country-Gender-Profile
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spelling okr-10986-309432021-05-25T09:19:46Z Belarus Country Gender Profile, 2016 Update World Bank Group GENDER AGENCY VOICE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS LABOR MARKET EMPLOYMENT ACCESS TO FINANCE EDUCATION POVERTY Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also a smartdevelopment policy. Gender equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reductionand shared prosperity. This update to the ‘2013 Belarus Country Gender Profile’ seeks to identifywhere progress has been achieved in terms of increasing opportunities for women and men inBelarus since that last assessment and where further policy action is required. As such, itunderstands gender equality to mean the closing of the gaps between women and men in areasthat are critical for them to access and take advantage of existing opportunities namelyendowments such as health and education; economic opportunities, via access to labor, land andfinancial markets;, and agency, including norms, representation, and freedom of violence (WorldBank 2016). Overall, Belarus’ ranges better than many countries in terms of gender equality. Thecountry’s gender gaps are much smaller than those observed in other countries in the region andthe world. The country ranks 30 among the 144 countries covered by the 2016 World EconomicForum Global Gender Gap Index, largely due to its good results on education outcomes and theirreflection in the labor market—Belarus ranks number 1 in terms of female enrollment in all levelsof education and also when it comes to having female professional and technical workers, and forwomen to enjoy a healthy life expectancy. However, these results are muted by the pervasivegender wage gap observed in Belarus, leaving the country at place 54 in the global ranking andthe low representation of women in political positions. While the country is among the top thirdof countries when it comes to parliamentary representation –ranks 47 among the 144 countrieswith a female parliamentary representation of 27 percent, it ranks 108 when it comes to the shareof women in ministerial positions, with an overall ranking of 80 for political empowerment. 2018-12-04T20:03:10Z 2018-12-04T20:03:10Z 2016-11 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/517311540825877515/Belarus-Country-Gender-Profile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30943 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Country Gender Assessment Europe and Central Asia Belarus
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topic GENDER
AGENCY
VOICE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
LABOR MARKET
EMPLOYMENT
ACCESS TO FINANCE
EDUCATION
POVERTY
spellingShingle GENDER
AGENCY
VOICE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
LABOR MARKET
EMPLOYMENT
ACCESS TO FINANCE
EDUCATION
POVERTY
World Bank Group
Belarus Country Gender Profile, 2016 Update
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description Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also a smartdevelopment policy. Gender equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reductionand shared prosperity. This update to the ‘2013 Belarus Country Gender Profile’ seeks to identifywhere progress has been achieved in terms of increasing opportunities for women and men inBelarus since that last assessment and where further policy action is required. As such, itunderstands gender equality to mean the closing of the gaps between women and men in areasthat are critical for them to access and take advantage of existing opportunities namelyendowments such as health and education; economic opportunities, via access to labor, land andfinancial markets;, and agency, including norms, representation, and freedom of violence (WorldBank 2016). Overall, Belarus’ ranges better than many countries in terms of gender equality. Thecountry’s gender gaps are much smaller than those observed in other countries in the region andthe world. The country ranks 30 among the 144 countries covered by the 2016 World EconomicForum Global Gender Gap Index, largely due to its good results on education outcomes and theirreflection in the labor market—Belarus ranks number 1 in terms of female enrollment in all levelsof education and also when it comes to having female professional and technical workers, and forwomen to enjoy a healthy life expectancy. However, these results are muted by the pervasivegender wage gap observed in Belarus, leaving the country at place 54 in the global ranking andthe low representation of women in political positions. While the country is among the top thirdof countries when it comes to parliamentary representation –ranks 47 among the 144 countrieswith a female parliamentary representation of 27 percent, it ranks 108 when it comes to the shareof women in ministerial positions, with an overall ranking of 80 for political empowerment.
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