World development report, 2012 gender equality and development. (Washington, D.C. World Bank, 2011)
Overview - - Introduction: A guide to the Report - - PART 1 - Taking stock of gender equality - A wave of progress - - The Persistence of Gender Equality - PART 2 - What has driven progress? What impedes it? - Education and Health: Where do gender differences really matter? - - Promoting women's agency - - Gender differences in employment and why they matter - - Globalization's impact on gender equality: What's happened and what's needed - PART 3 - The role of and potential for public action - Public action for gender equality - - The political economy of gender reform - - A global agenda for greater gender equality.
(WS-039fo) donated by Prof. Athena Lydia Casambre.
Keywords: Women in development; Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions; Women in economic development