Bolivia : Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
This note aims to provide information and analysis as a basis for a better understanding of the challenges and constraints of achieving gender equality in Bolivia, with a special focus on the intersectionality between gender and ethnicity. Combinin...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25863819/bolivia-challenges-constraints-gender-equality-women’s-empowerment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23829 |
| Summary: | This note aims to provide information
and analysis as a basis for a better understanding of the
challenges and constraints of achieving gender equality in
Bolivia, with a special focus on the intersectionality
between gender and ethnicity. Combining and analyzing
existing evidence and new data, it seeks to document
gender-specific disparities in development outcomes,
highlight opportunities and constraints to women’s
empowerment, and identify areas in which continuing
knowledge gaps are particularly important to understand and
address gender inequalities. The analysis in this note
suggests that: there is important progress in development
outcomes for women, in their access to services and to
decision-making spaces; the intersection of gender and
ethnicity deepens the gaps in some development outcomes in
Bolivia; women feel discriminated against in different
aspects of their lives, in particular indigenous women. Not
having access to economic opportunities limit women’s
agency; and while women with higher levels of agency are
able to more fully take advantage of existing opportunities. |
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