Empowering Women

UNCTAD ; World Bank

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS;    EMPOWERMENT;    RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT;    LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION;    GENDER INEQUALITY;   

RP-ID  :  124295

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This note addresses practices forreducing gender inequalities and for empowering women tomake a positive contribution to development throughagricultural investments. Women make a crucial contributionto the agriculture sector and account for over 40 percent ofagricultural labor in developing countries. However, theyare frequently marginalized and their contributionsunder-acknowledged. Agricultural investments may perpetuateor accentuate gender inequalities if proactive genderpolicies are not adopted. There are significant economic andsocial gains to be had from closing the gender gap inagriculture. This note provides investors and governmentswith guidance on how to do so.