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Women, Work, and the Economy : Macroeconomic Gains from Gender Equity
Katrin Elborgh-Woytek,Monique Newiak,Kalpana Kochhar,Stefania Fabrizio,Kangni Kpodar,Philippe Wingender,Benedict Clements,Gerd Schwartz +7 more
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The SDN as discussed by the authors discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of women's participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women from developing their full economic potential and presents possible policies to overcome these obstacles in different types of countries.Abstract:
The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of women’s participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women from developing their full economic potential. Building on earlier Fund analysis, work undertaken by other organizations and academic research, the SDN presents possible policies to overcome these obstacles in different types of countries.read more
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Economic Impacts of Child Marriage: A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that child marriage is a widespread violation of human rights and is an impediment to social and economic development, and it is rooted in gender inequality.
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Aggregate Effects of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate
David Cuberes,Marc Teignier +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and workforce participation and find that gender gaps cause an average income loss of 15 percent in the OECD, 40 percent of which is due to entrepreneurship gaps.
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Power and the Sustainable Development Goals: a feminist analysis
TL;DR: A power analysis of the sustainable development goals process and outcomes from a feminist perspective is presented in this article, where the authors consider how structural power relations are challenged or reinforced in the Agenda and the SDGs, and in plans for their implementation and resourcing.
Economic impacts of child marriage : global synthesis report
Quentin Wodon,Chata Male,Kolobadia Ada Nayihouba,Adenike Opeoluwa Onagoruwa,Aboudrahyme Savadogo,Ali Yedan,Jeffrey Edmeades,A. Kes,Neetu A. John,Lydia Murithi,Mara Steinhaus,Suzanne Petroni +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the negative impacts of child marriage and their associated economic costs are investigated. And the authors suggest that investing to end child marriage is not only the right thing to do, but also makes sense economically.
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Fair Play : More Equal Laws Boost Female Labor Force Participation
TL;DR: This article examined the effect of gender-based legal restrictions and other policy choices and demographic characteristics on female labor force participation and found that restrictions on women's rights to inheritance and property, as well as legal impediments to undertaking economic activities such as opening a bank account or freely pursuing a profession, are strongly associated with larger gender gaps in labor-force participation.
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Women Empowerment and Economic Development
TL;DR: The authors argued that the interrelationships between empowerment and economic development are probably too weak to be self-sustaining, and that continuous policy commitment to equality for its own sake may be needed to bring about equality between men and women.
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Does female representation in top management improve firm performance? A panel data investigation
TL;DR: It is found that female representation in top management improves firm performance but only to the extent that a firm's strategy is focused on innovation, in which context the informational and social benefits of gender diversity and the behaviors associated with women in management are likely to be especially important for managerial task performance.
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The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates: Lessons from Europe
TL;DR: In this paper, the economic consequences of rights to paid parental leave in nine European countries over the 1969 through 1993 period were investigated, and most of the analysis examined how changes in paid leave affect the gap between female and male labor market outcomes.
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The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History
Claudia Goldin,Claudia Goldin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore why the change takes place and why the þ-shape is traced out of the labor force participation rate of married women in the United States, finding that the initial decline in the participation rate is due to the movement of production from the household, family farm and small business to the wider market, and to a strong income effect.
Gender inequality, income, and growth : are good times good for women ?
TL;DR: This paper showed that low investment in women is not an efficient economic choice, and they can show that gender inequality in education is bad for economic growth, and that societies that have a preference for not investing in girls pay a price for it in terms of slower growth and reduced income.