Sustainable Impact on Girls’ Lives : Skills Development Programs for Adolescent Girls
In this note, a relatively small investment in research and evidence can yield lasting impacts onyoung women’s employment and can inform large-scale policies and programs to improve the lives of girls and their communities.We often hear about a loo...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/327781496831875874/Sustainable-impact-on-girls-lives-skills-development-programs-for-adolescent-girls http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27135 |
| Summary: | In this note, a relatively small
investment in research and evidence can yield lasting
impacts onyoung women’s employment and can inform
large-scale policies and programs to improve the lives of
girls and their communities.We often hear about a looming
youth employment crisis in low-income countries. Although
governments are spending more than ever before on youth
employment programs, these programs rarely target young
women explicitly, even though they have lower employment
ratesthan young men and face additional socio-cultural
barriers. Globally adolescent girls are marginalized in
large numbers, and their vulnerabilities and constraints are
particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa. Young women tend
to have less education, so they’re less qualified for jobs.
They do not have as much time available for paid work
because of their domestic duties and they often do not
pursue jobs in high-paying fields because they are not
considered suitable for women. There’s also a strong family
formation dimension to young women’s employment decisions
that doesn’t affect young men in the same way. |
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