by Xiong Maoling WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Progress in gender equality has been "very slow" overall, said Hana Brixi, the World Bank Group's global director for gender, calling for more efforts to expand economic opportunities for women across the globe. In an interview with Xinhua ...
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The World Bank Group Gender Action Plan was created to advance women's economic empowerment and promote shared growth.【参考译文】促进性别平等:妇女在劳动力市场的地位正在缓慢转变,但全世界有60%以上的妇女是从事有贡献但无报酬的家务劳动者,这一比例远高于男性。世界银行集团制定了性别平等行动计划,以推动...
Gender equality promotes development: the World Bank's gender action plan Gender equality is a human right. This alone is reason enough for development assistance to consider the issue. In addition, there are a number of strong economic arguments for doing so. As an example, numerous studies ...
Gendering the World Bank provides an unusual, wide-ranging and accessible account of the constitution and effects of discourses of neoliberal governance. Paying particular attention to how gender matters in and to contemporary global governance, the author focuses in particular on the development discour...
The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is hiring three GIL Fellows from Sub-Saharan Africa. The Lab conducts rigorous impact evaluations of development interventions to generate evidence on how to close gender gaps in productivity, earnings, and assets. The GIL Fellowship Program aims...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - The World Bank on Thursday launched the Sierra Leone Country Gender Action Plan (C-GAP), a comprehensive roadmap aimed at reducing gender inequalities and promoting gender equality across various sectors in the country...
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Drawing on a computer-assisted inductive analysis of thirty-four Bank publications on gender since 2001, the paper documents Bank efforts to establish a positive relationship between gender equality and growth; shows the expansion of the Bank's definition of equality as equal opportunity; illustrates ...