Toward Gender Equality (Development in Practice). The Role of Public Policy

摘要

This report, written for the Fourth World Conference on Women, is intended as areference to strategies for promoting gender equality and, consequently, enhancing economic efficiency. It pulls together evidence, includung case studies, that demonstrates the need for government action to improve the economic status of women. It points out how public policy can and should support services and infrastructure that provide the highest social returns and that are most heavily used by women. The report also aims to stimulate creative solutions to the problem of gender inequality by highlighting innovative and sometimes not obvious strategies that have proved successful.