Gender Disparities and Poverty - A Background Paper for the Togo Poverty and Gender Assessment 2022

Gender gaps in Togo cut across many dimensions. Inequality starts in childhood, when girls are disadvantaged in access to schooling because of prevalent social norms and gender roles. It continues into adolescence, when a larger share of girls starts dropping out of school (with fewer than one in two completing secondary education), unable to continue education because of a number of factors, including child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, and time use patterns shaped by gender norms. In adolescence and adulthood, women face the constraints of limited education and economic opportunities, restrictive gender roles that leave women little time for participation in the labor force, financial inequities, high levels of acceptance of violence against women, health risks, and a lack of agency and decision-making capacity. This background paper to the Poverty and Gender Assessment Togo (2022) highlights the importance of addressing gender disparities to achieve continued poverty reduction in Togo.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2024-06-12
Subjects:	GENDER AND EMPLOYMENT, POVERTY AND FISCAL, FINANCIAL, AND ECONOMIC CRISIS, GENDER AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, POVERTY, JOBS AND DEVELOPMENT, GENDER AND GROWTH, NO POVERTY, SDG 1, GENDER EQUALITY, SDG 5, QUALITY EDUCATION, SDG 4, GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, SDG 3,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099053124062516452/P1779881b5bb2f0021a9ac1173999bfcdf6 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41697
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