Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth

By Raquel Fernández, Asel Isakova, Francesco Luna, Barbara Rambousek

March 4, 2021

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Raquel Fernández, Asel Isakova, Francesco Luna, and Barbara Rambousek. Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal framework reforms, policies to promote equal access, and efforts to tackle entrenched social norms. These need to be set in the context of arising new trends such as digitalization, climate change, as well as shocks such as pandemics.

Subject: Education, Gender, Gender inequality, Health, Women

Keywords: Active labor market policies, Age-employment profile, Central Asia, Commonwealth country, Earnings gap, Fiscal policy, Gender budgeting, Gender discrimination, Gender earnings gap, Gender gap, Gender inequality, GGGI: Global Gender Gap Index, Global, Inclusive growth, Inequality, Job portal, Justice system, Parental leave, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Wage gap, Wage segregation, West Africa, Women, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

50
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2021/059
Stock No:

WPIEA2021059
ISBN:

9781513571164
ISSN:

1018-5941

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