Empowering Women

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 108.2 History and description of philosophy with respect to kinds of persons
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 302336
• Chủ đề: 1. EMPOWERMENT; 2. GENDER INEQUALITY; 3. LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION; 4. RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT; 5. WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Tóm tắt

This note addresses practices for reducing gender inequalities and for empowering women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments. Women make a crucial contribution to the agriculture sector and account for over 40 percent of agricultural labor in developing countries. However, they are frequently marginalized and their contributions under-acknowledged. Agricultural investments may perpetuate or accentuate gender inequalities if proactive gender policies are not adopted. There are significant economic and social gains to be had from closing the gender gap in agriculture. This note provides investors and governments with guidance on how to do so.