PHM-Exch> World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


** ** ** **

*            **World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and
Development***

*The World Bank, September 2011
            *

Available online at: http://bit.ly/n28pnv ****

“…..The lives of girls and women have changed dramatically over the past
quarter century. The pace of change has been astonishing in some areas, but
in others, progress toward gender equality has been limited—even in
developed countries.****

This year's World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development argues
that gender equality is a core development objective in its own right. It is
also smart economics. Greater gender equality can enhance productivity,
improve development outcomes for the next generation, and make institutions
more representative.****

The Report also focuses on four priority areas for policy going forward: ***
*

(i) reducing excess female mortality and closing education gaps where they
remain, ****

(ii) improving access to economic opportunities for women****

(iii) increasing women's voice and agency in the household and in society
and ****

(iv) limiting the reproduction of gender inequality across generations….”***
*


      *Content:*

Complete Report*
*World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development  (19MB, pdf)
Issuu

Main Messages (multilingual)
Overview (multilingual)*
*Introduction* - *A guide to the Report (1.0MB, pdf)****

*Download by Chapter: *The Report has nine chapters in three parts.****

*Part I Taking stock of gender equality*

Presents the facts that will then provide the foundation for the rest of the
Report. It combines existing and new data to document changes in key
dimensions of gender equality over the past quarter century and across
regions and countries. ****

Its main message is that very rapid and, in some cases, unprecedented
progress has been made in some dimensions of gender equality (chapter 1),
but that it has not reached all women or been uniform across all dimensions
of gender equality (chapter 2).****

*Download:*
Chapter 1: *A Wave of
progress<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-1.pdf>
* (913KB, pdf)
Chapter 2: *The persistence of gender
inequality<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-2.pdf>
** *(1.2MB, pdf)
*Spread 1:** Women's pathways to empowerment: Do all roads lead to
Rome?<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-1.pdf>
** *(219KB, pdf)****

*Part II What has driven progress? What impedes it?*

The contrast between the patterns and trends described in the first two
chapters of the Report prompts one to ask what explains the progress or lack
of it. Part 2—constitutes the analytical core of the Report. It presents the
conceptual framework and uses it to examine the factors that have fostered
change and the constraints that have slowed progress. ****

** **

The analysis focuses on gender differences in education and health (chapter
3), agency (chapter 4), and access to economic opportunities (chapter
5)—discussing the roles of economic growth, households, markets, and
institutions in determining outcomes in these three spheres. Part 2
concludes with a discussion of the impact of globalization on gender
inequality, paying attention to the opportunities and challenges created by
new economic and social trends (chapter 6). ****

The analysis in these four chapters leads to the identification of four
priority areas for action: reducing gender gaps in human capital endowments,
promoting higher access to economic opportunities among women, closing
gender gaps in household and societal voice, and limiting the
intergenerational reproduction of gender inequality.****

*Download:*
Chapter 3: *Education and health: Where do gender differences really matter?
<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-3.pdf>
*(4.7MB, pdf)
Chapter 4: *Promoting women's
agency*<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-4.pdf>(3.0MB,
pdf)
*Spread 2: The decline of the breadwinner: Men in the 21st
century<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-2.pdf>
 **(175KB, pdf)*
Chapter 5: *Gender differences in employment and why they
matter<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-5.pdf>
* (4.9MB, pdf)
Chapter 6*: Globalization's impact on gender equality: What's happened and
what's needed<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-6.pdf>
* (1.0MB, pdf)
*Spread 3: Changing ages, changing bodies, changing times—Adolescent boys
and girls<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-3.pdf>
 **(177KB.pdf)*****

*Part III The role of and potential for public action*

Presents policy recommendations, examines the political economy of reforms
for gender equality, and proposes a global agenda for action. The discussion
starts with a detailed description of policy options addressing the four
priority areas, complemented with concrete illustrations of successful
interventions in different contexts (chapter 7). ****


An examination of the political economy of gender reforms follows, with an
emphasis on the issues that distinguish reform in this area from other types
of redistributive or equality-enhancing reforms (chapter 8). Global action
on gender equality should focus on complementing country efforts on the four
priority areas identified in the Report (chapter 9).****

*Download:**
*Chapter 7: *Public action for gender equality
<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-7.pdf>
*(1.0MB, pdf)
Chapter 8: *The political economy of gender
reform<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-8.pdf>
* (1.1MB, pdf)
Chapter 9: *A global agenda for greater gender
equality<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-9.pdf>
** *(522KB, pdf) ****

** **
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://phm.phmovement.org/pipermail/phm-exchange-phmovement.org/attachments/20110921/3d039b0e/attachment.html>