Kosovo - Country Gender Assessment
Fostering gender equality and enabling women’s economic participation is critical for Kosovo’s development trajectory. Actively engaging, nurturing, and optimizing the diverse talents and capabilities of the population, especially of inactive segments is paramount to sustained progress in poverty reduction and shared prosperity. In the last decades, Kosovo has seen some progress in gender equality, including reduced gender gaps in education, increased female life expectancy, and a slight uptick in political participation. However, disparities persist in various areas, including the labor market, entrepreneurship, earnings, occupational segregation, unpaid labor, and violence against women. This Country Gender Assessment provides empirical evidence and analyzes gender equality in Kosovo. Methodologically, the report adopts the Gender Assessment framework proposed by the World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development (WDR 2012). Through this lens, the report scrutinizes recent progress and lingering challenges across three critical dimensions: Endowments, Economic opportunities, and Voice and Agency. Extensive research was conducted drawing from various data sources to gauge indicators such as health, education, labor market dynamics, and gender-based violence, among others. The structure of the report is as follows. Section 2 delves into the legal and institutional framework. Section 3 assesses gender equality from the perspective of human endowments. Section 4 discusses progress and challenges in economic opportunities. Section 5 focuses on issues related to voice and agency.
Main Authors: | , |
---|---|
Format: | Report biblioteca |
Language: | English en_US |
Published: |
Washington, DC: World Bank
2024-07-18
|
Subjects: | POVERTY, EDUCATION, GENDER, NO POVERTY, SDG 1, QUALITY EDUCATION, SDG 4, GENDER EQUALITY, SDG 5, |
Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099062524152056507/P17703513e91790df181ef12147364b2570 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41898 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Summary: | Fostering gender equality and
enabling women’s economic participation is critical for
Kosovo’s development trajectory. Actively engaging,
nurturing, and optimizing the diverse talents and
capabilities of the population, especially of inactive
segments is paramount to sustained progress in poverty
reduction and shared prosperity. In the last decades, Kosovo
has seen some progress in gender equality, including reduced
gender gaps in education, increased female life expectancy,
and a slight uptick in political participation. However,
disparities persist in various areas, including the labor
market, entrepreneurship, earnings, occupational
segregation, unpaid labor, and violence against women. This
Country Gender Assessment provides empirical evidence and
analyzes gender equality in Kosovo. Methodologically, the
report adopts the Gender Assessment framework proposed by
the World Development Report on Gender Equality and
Development (WDR 2012). Through this lens, the report
scrutinizes recent progress and lingering challenges across
three critical dimensions: Endowments, Economic
opportunities, and Voice and Agency. Extensive research was
conducted drawing from various data sources to gauge
indicators such as health, education, labor market dynamics,
and gender-based violence, among others. The structure of
the report is as follows. Section 2 delves into the legal
and institutional framework. Section 3 assesses gender
equality from the perspective of human endowments. Section 4
discusses progress and challenges in economic opportunities.
Section 5 focuses on issues related to voice and agency. |
---|