Toward Gender Equality: The Role of Public Policy (WB, 1995, 88 p.): Chapter three: Public Policies Matter

Toward Gender Equality: The Role of Public Policy (WB, 1995, 88 p.)

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

Public Policies Matter

As CHAPTER 2 has shown underivesting in girls and women is inefficient for society as a whole. Correcting for past underinvestment will require a "genders" approach to public policy. How this can be concretely achieved is the topic of this chapter.