A World Bank Policy Research Report 

Gender discrimination remains pervasive worldwide despite considerable advances in gender equality in recent decades. In no region of the developing world are women equal to men in legal, social, and economic rights. Gender gaps are widespread in access to an control of resources, in economic opportunities, and in power and political voice. Women and girls bear the largest and most direct costs of these inequalities-but the costs cut more broadly across society, ultimately harming everyone.

Engendering Development : Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice bring together existing and new research from several social science disciplines to examine the costs of persistent gender disparities to well-being and countries' development prospects. It explores how formal and informal institutions shape gender roles and relations and how household decisions and behaviors reproduce those roles, the relationship between economic development and gender equality, and the role of public policy and civic action in promoting gender equality.

The report argues that development polices that do not take gender relations into account and do not address such disparities will have limited effectiveness. To promote gender equality and development effectiveness, the report proposes combining a long-term strategy based on reforming institutions to establish equal rights and equal opportunities for women and men and on fostering economic development...  

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Engendering development : Through gender equality in rights, resources and voice : Summary
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/ The World Bank
2001
Sex role--Developing countries ; Women in development--Developing countries
1054 MPQL db/ 428