Mexico Gender Assessment
Gender equality is a key pathway to ensuring lasting poverty reduction and shared prosperity. Identifying the main gender gaps that a country faces, across different domains, better informs policy design. To that effect, this report seeks to identify where progress has been achieved in increasing opportunities and outcomes for women and men in Mexico and where further policy action is required. It focuses on three areas that are critical for gender-equal access to opportunities: (a) endowments, such as health and education; (b) economic opportunities, such as access to labor, land, and financial markets; and (c) agency, including norms, representation, and freedom from violence (World Bank 2012). The report takes advantage of the existing literature as well as different sources of publicly available data for the country and aims to provide a panorama of the prevailing gender gaps and areas for work to close those gaps, covering a wide range of outcomes.
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Format: | Report biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019-04-11
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Subjects: | MATERNAL MORTALITY, ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES, FERTILITY, GENDER GAP, SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, WAGE GAP, UNEMPLOYMENT, FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS, ACCESS TO FINANCE, GENDER EQUALITY, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, VOICE, |
Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/377311556867098027/Mexico-Gender-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31619 |
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Summary: | Gender equality is a key pathway to ensuring lasting poverty reduction and shared prosperity. Identifying the main gender gaps that a country faces, across different domains, better informs policy design. To that effect, this report seeks to identify where progress has been achieved in increasing opportunities and outcomes for women and men in Mexico and where further policy action is required. It focuses on three areas that are critical for gender-equal access to opportunities: (a) endowments, such as health and education; (b) economic opportunities, such as access to labor, land, and financial markets; and (c) agency, including norms, representation, and freedom from violence (World Bank 2012). The report takes advantage of the existing literature as well as different sources of publicly available data for the country and aims to provide a panorama of the prevailing gender gaps and areas for work to close those gaps, covering a wide range of outcomes. |
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