Empowering Women
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 ove...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/283681521091071945/Empowering-women http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29474 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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