 | Toward Gender Equality: The Role of Public Policy (WB, 1995, 88 p.) |
 |  | (introduction...) |
| | 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 |
Conclusion
Analysts must look beyond market outcomes to identity the sources of persistent inequality between women and men. The search must focus on the household and its role in the formation of present and future human capital and on institutions beyond the household that reinforce and perpetuate gender inequalities. Gender inequalities within the household affect market outcomes, and these feed back; into household decisionmaking. This process is reinforced by inequalities in access to assets and services beyond the household. Improving the relative status of women within the household and increasing their access to assets and services will increase the returns to investment in human resources and improve the prospects for sustainable economic growth.
We must look for that which we have been trained not to see Ann Scales, Yale Law Journal 1986
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