 | Development in practice: Toward Gender Equality source ref: wb34te.htm |
 |  | Foreword |
| | Acknowledgments |
|  | Definitions and Data Notes |
| | Definitions |
| | Data Notes |
| | Summary |
| | Progress to Date |
| | Why Do Gender Inequalities Persist? |
| | Strategies for the Future |
| | Conclusion |
| | Chapter one |
| | Gender Inequalities Persist |
| | Education |
| | Health |
| | Employment Work |
| | Chapter two |
| | Gender Inequalities Hamper Growth |
| | Household and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation |
| | Linkages between Education Health, and Nutritious |
| | Household and Labor Market Linkages |
| | Formal Sector Employment |
| | Informal Sector |
| | Access to Financial Markets |
| | Access to Lund and Property |
| | Access to Extension Services |
| | Conclusion |
| | Chapter three |
| | Public Policies Matter |
| | Equalizing Opportunities by Modifying, the Legal Framework |
| | Land and Property Rights |
| | Labor Market Policies and Employment Law |
| | Family Law |
| | Women's bargaining position in relation to household |
| | Financial Laws and Regulations |
| | Macroeconomic: Policies |
| | Inflation tends to hit women harder than men. |
| | Sectoral Investments |
| | Using Targeting Measures to Narrow the Gender |
| | Involving Beneficiaries in Public Policy |
| | Generating and Analyzing Gender-Desegregated Data |
| | Working in Collaboration |
| | Strengthening International Policies to Meet New Challenges |
| | Conclusions |
| | Notes |
| | References |
Gender Inequalities Hamper Growth
Inequality women and men limits productivity ultimately slows economic growth. early empirical studies (for example, Kuznets 1955) suggested that income inequality would increase with economic growth during the initial phases of development. This chapter, however. starts with the hypothesis that there is not necessarily a tradeoff between inequality and growth and. indeed that high inequality especially as it affects human capital. hampers growth (Fields 1992: Birdsall and Sabot 1994).
Both theory and empirical evidence point to the importance of human capital in creating the necessary conditions for productivity growth and in reducing aggregate inequality in the future. In addition. women s human capital generates benefits for society in the form of lower child mortality. higher educational attainment improved nutrition. and reduced population growth. Inequalities in the accumulation and use of human capital at-e related to lower economic and social well-being for all.
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