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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okr-10986-238292021-04-23T14:04:17Z Bolivia : Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment World Bank Group DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EMPOWERMENT EQUALITY ETHNICITY GENDER INDIGENOUS WOMEN KNOWLEDGE GAPS WOMEN WOMEN'S ACCESS TO SERVICES WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT 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. 2016-03-02T20:56:21Z 2016-03-02T20:56:21Z 2015 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25863819/bolivia-challenges-constraints-gender-equality-women’s-empowerment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23829 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Women in Development and Gender Study Economic & Sector Work Latin America & Caribbean Bolivia |
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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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Bolivia : Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment |
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Bolivia : Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment |
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Bolivia : Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment |
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Bolivia : Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment |
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Bolivia : Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment |
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bolivia : challenges and constraints to gender equality and women’s empowerment |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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