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 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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Brief biblioteca
Language:	en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2013-10-16
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,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17105
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