Belarus Country Gender Profile, 2016 Update
Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also a smartdevelopment policy. Gender equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reductionand shared prosperity. This update to the ‘2013 Belarus Country Gen...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/517311540825877515/Belarus-Country-Gender-Profile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30943 |
| Summary: | Gender equality is a core development
objective in its own right, and it is also a
smartdevelopment policy. Gender equality is also a key
pathway to ensure lasting poverty reductionand shared
prosperity. This update to the ‘2013 Belarus Country Gender
Profile’ seeks to identifywhere progress has been achieved
in terms of increasing opportunities for women and men
inBelarus since that last assessment and where further
policy action is required. As such, itunderstands gender
equality to mean the closing of the gaps between women and
men in areasthat are critical for them to access and take
advantage of existing opportunities namelyendowments such as
health and education; economic opportunities, via access to
labor, land andfinancial markets;, and agency, including
norms, representation, and freedom of violence (WorldBank
2016). Overall, Belarus’ ranges better than many countries
in terms of gender equality. Thecountry’s gender gaps are
much smaller than those observed in other countries in the
region andthe world. The country ranks 30 among the 144
countries covered by the 2016 World EconomicForum Global
Gender Gap Index, largely due to its good results on
education outcomes and theirreflection in the labor
market—Belarus ranks number 1 in terms of female enrollment
in all levelsof education and also when it comes to having
female professional and technical workers, and forwomen to
enjoy a healthy life expectancy. However, these results are
muted by the pervasivegender wage gap observed in Belarus,
leaving the country at place 54 in the global ranking andthe
low representation of women in political positions. While
the country is among the top thirdof countries when it comes
to parliamentary representation –ranks 47 among the 144
countrieswith a female parliamentary representation of 27
percent, it ranks 108 when it comes to the shareof women in
ministerial positions, with an overall ranking of 80 for
political empowerment. |
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