Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market
The main aim of this book is to help fill the gap in current knowledge about the nature, the extent, and some of the root causes of gender disparities in Africa, showing what can be revealed about the application of standard and less standard tools...
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World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333038_20101116002315 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2520 |
| Summary: | The main aim of this book is to help
fill the gap in current knowledge about the nature, the
extent, and some of the root causes of gender disparities in
Africa, showing what can be revealed about the application
of standard and less standard tools and methods to existing
survey and national account data. The analysis herein is
novel in providing in-depth assessments of some of the
sources of gender disparities in different labor market
outcomes. A part of the book provides results on the basis
that data are as comparable as possible for 18 countries.
These results were extracted from multi-topic, integrated
household surveys conducted in Africa around 2000 and thus
may not represent the latest trends, but they have the merit
to be comparable. The cross-national perspective provides a
benchmark against which other results for individual
countries and more recent data presented here may be
compared. Additional goals are to demonstrate the
possibilities, as well as the challenges, of analysis of
gender inequality in labor market outcomes with existing
survey data, to support the improvement of data collection,
and to stimulate further research on gender disparities in
Africa. The book touches on policy issues at various points,
although it is not principally a book about using policy to
reduce gender inequality. Rather, it aims to provide
analysis that is relevant to policy design. |
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