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Voice and agency

Santamaria, Julieth, McCleary-Sills, Jennifer, Klugman, Jeni, Hanmer, Lucia, Twigg, Sarah, Hasan, Tazeen

2014

Overview

This report on voice and agency, which builds on the 2012 World Development Report, focuses on several areas key to women's empowerment: freedom from violence, control over sexual and reproductive health and rights, ownership and control of land and housing, and voice and collective action. It explores the power of social norms in dictating how men and women can and cannot behave, deterring women from owning property or working even where laws permit, for example, because those who do become outcasts. The report distills vast data and hundreds of studies to shed new light on constraints facing women and girls worldwide, from epidemic levels of gender-based violence to biased laws and norms that prevent them from owning property, working, and making decisions about their own lives. It highlights promising reforms and interventions from around the world and lays out an urgent agenda for governments, civil society, development agencies, and other stakeholders. Among its keys findings: girls with little or no education are far more likely to be married as children, suffer domestic violence, live in poverty, and lack a say over household spending or their own health care than better-educated peers, which harms them, their children, and communities.

• Publisher: World Bank Group,THE WORLD BANK,World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank Group
• Subject: ACCESS TO EDUCATION / ACCESS TO INFORMATION / ACCESS TO JUSTICE / ACCESS TO NETWORKS / ACT OF VIOLENCE / ADOLESCENT GIRLS / ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY / ADOLESCENTS / ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY / ANTENATAL CARE / BABIES / BARRIERS TO WOMEN / BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS / BASIS OF SEX / BEATING / BENEFITS FOR WOMEN / BIRTH CONTROL / BREAST-FEEDING / CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE / CHILD CARE / CHILD HEALTH / CHILD MARRIAGE / COMMISSION OF WOMEN / CONDOM / CONTRACEPTION / CONTROL OVER RESOURCES / CULTURAL CHANGE / CUSTOMARY PRACTICES / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DEVELOPMENT GOALS / DISCRIMINATION / DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN / DISCRIMINATORY LAWS / DISSEMINATION / DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / EARLY MARRIAGE / EARLY SEXUAL ACTIVITY / Economic conditions / Economic development / Economic development -- Developing countries / ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT / ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES / ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN / EDUCATED MOTHERS / EDUCATED WOMEN / EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT / EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT / EFFECTS OF GENDER / EMERGENCIES / EMPOWERING WOMEN / EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN / ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS / ENHANCING WOMEN / Entwicklungsland / Entwicklungsländer / EPIDEMIC / EQUAL PARTICIPATION / EQUAL PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN / EQUAL RELATIONSHIPS / EQUAL RIGHTS / EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN / EQUALITY IN EDUCATION / ETHNIC GROUP / EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE / FAMILY MEMBERS / FAMILY PLANNING / FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION / FEMALE CHILDREN / FEMININITY / FERTILITY / FEWER CHILDREN / FEWER WOMEN / FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION / FORMS OF GENDER / Frauenbewegung / Frauenbildung / Frauenpolitik / FREEDOM OF CHOICE / FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS / FUTURE GENERATIONS / GENDER DIFFERENCES / GENDER EQUALITY / GENDER GAP / GENDER GAPS / GENDER ISSUES / GENDER NORMS / GENDER PARITY / GENDER ROLES / GENDER STATISTICS / GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / HEALTH PROBLEMS / HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT / HUSBANDS / INDIVIDUAL WOMEN / INEQUALITY / INFORMATION SYSTEM / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES / INHERITANCE / INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION / INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE / INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION / IUD / LACK OF AWARENESS / LAND OWNERSHIP / LEGAL STATUS / LEVEL OF EDUCATION / LIFE EXPECTANCY / LIFE SKILLS / LIVING STANDARDS / LOWER FERTILITY / MARITAL RAPE / MARITAL STATUS / MARRIAGES / MARRIED WOMEN / MASCULINITY / MATERNAL HEALTH / MEDICAL CARE / MENTAL HEALTH / MIGRATION / MIGRATION POLICY / MINORITY / MORTALITY / MOTHER / MUTUAL RESPECT / Mädchen / NATIONAL LAWS / NATIONAL LEVEL / NUMBER OF WOMEN / NUTRITION / OLD AGE / OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN / OWNERSHIP OF LAND / PARLIAMENTARY SEATS / PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN / PEACE / PERSISTENT GAPS / PHYSICAL HEALTH / PLACE OF RESIDENCE / POLICY FORMULATION / POLICY RESEARCH / POLITICAL PARTICIPATION / POOR FAMILIES / POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT / POSTNATAL CARE / PREFERENCE FOR SONS / PREGNANCY / PREGNANCY-RELATED CAUSES / PRENATAL CARE / PRIMARY EDUCATION / PRIMARY SCHOOL / PRIMARY SCHOOLING / PRINCIPLES OF GENDER EQUALITY / PRODUCTIVITY / PROGRESS / PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY / PUBLIC ARENA / PUBLIC LIFE / REFUGEE / REFUGEE STATUS / REFUGEES / REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN / REPRODUCTIVE DECISIONS / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INFORMATION / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES / REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS / RISKY BEHAVIOR / ROLE OF GENDER / RURAL AREAS / RURAL WOMEN / SANITATION / SECONDARY EDUCATION / SECONDARY SCHOOL / SECTORAL POLICIES / SELF-CONFIDENCE / SERVICE DELIVERY / SERVICE PROVISION / SEX / SEXUAL HARASSMENT / SEXUAL PARTNER / SEXUAL VIOLENCE / SEXUALLY ACTIVE / SOCIAL CHANGE / Social conditions / SOCIAL DIMENSION / SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS / SOCIAL MOBILITY / SOCIAL NORMS / SOCIAL STATUS / SOCIAL STATUS OF WOMEN / SOCIAL SUPPORT / SPOUSES / SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE / TEEN / TEEN PREGNANCY / UNEQUAL POWER / UNFPA / UNICEF / UNITED NATIONS / UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND / UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT / URBAN WOMEN / USAID / VICTIMS / VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN / VOCATIONAL TRAINING / WOMAN / Women / Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions / Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions / WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP / WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT / WOMEN IN POLITICS / WOMEN LEADERS / WOMEN VICTIMS / Women''s rights / Women's rights -- Developing countries / WORKING CONDITIONS / WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION / YOUNG WOMEN
• ISBN: 9781464803604, 1464803609, 1464803595, 9781464803598