From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality
and Development</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The World Bank,
September 2011<br>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“…..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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Report also focuses on four
priority areas for policy going forward: <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(i) reducing excess female mortality
and closing education gaps where they remain, <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(ii) improving access to economic
opportunities for women<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(iii) increasing women's voice and
agency in the household and in society and <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(iv) limiting the reproduction of
gender inequality across generations….”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:10.5pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Complete Report<b><span style="font-weight:bold"><br>
</span></b>World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and
Development (19MB, pdf) Issuu<br>
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Main Messages (multilingual)<br>
Overview (multilingual)<b><span style="font-weight:bold"><br>
</span></b>Introduction<b><span style="font-weight:bold"> - </span></b>A guide
to the Report (1.0MB, pdf)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:10.5pt"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Download
by Chapter</span></font>: </b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Report has nine chapters in three parts.</span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:10.5pt"><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">Part I Taking stock of gender equality<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:15.0pt"><b><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Download:</span></font></b></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
Chapter 1: <i><u><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-1.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89">A Wave of progress</span></font></a></span></u></i> </span></font><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(913KB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
Chapter 2: <i><u><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-2.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89">The persistence of gender
inequality</span></font></a></span></u></i><u> </u></span></font><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(1.2MB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
<i><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Spread 1:</span></font></i></i><i><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-1.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none"> </span></font><i><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;font-style:italic">Women's
pathways to empowerment: Do all roads lead to Rome?</span></font></i></a></span></font></i></i></span></font><span><i><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic"> </span></font></i></span><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(219KB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:10.5pt"><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">Part II What has driven progress? What impedes
it?<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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). <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:15.0pt"><b><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Download:</span></font></b></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
Chapter 3: <i><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-3.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none">Education
and health: Where do gender differences really matter? </span></font></a></span></i></span></font><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(4.7MB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
Chapter 4:<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-4.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none"> <i><span style="font-style:italic">Promoting women's agency</span></i></span></font></a></span></font><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> (3.0MB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
<i><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Spread 2: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-2.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none">The decline
of the breadwinner: Men in the 21st century</span></font></a> </span></font></i></i></span></font><span><i><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">(175KB, pdf)</span></font></i></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
Chapter 5: <i><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-5.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none">Gender
differences in employment and why they matter</span></font></a></span></i>
(4.9MB, pdf)<br>
Chapter 6<i><span style="font-style:italic">: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-6.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none">Globalization's
impact on gender equality: What's happened and what's needed</span></font></a></span></i> </span></font><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(1.0MB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
<i><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Spread 3: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-3.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none">Changing
ages, changing bodies, changing times—Adolescent boys and girls</span></font></a> </span></font></i></i></span></font><span><i><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">(177KB.pdf)</span></font></i></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:10.5pt"><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">Part III The role of and potential for public
action<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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). <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
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).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Download:</span></font></b></b><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold"><br>
</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Chapter 7: <i><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-7.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none">Public
action for gender equality </span></font></a></span></i></span></font><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(1.0MB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
Chapter 8: <i><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-8.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none">The
political economy of gender reform</span></font></a></span></i> </span></font><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(1.1MB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
Chapter 9: <i><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-9.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#144f89"><span style="color:#144F89;text-decoration:none">A global
agenda for greater gender equality</span></font></a></span></i></span></font><span><i><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic"> </span></font></i></span><span><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">(522KB, pdf)</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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