Investing in Opportunities for All : Croatia Country Gender Assessment
The Croatia Country Gender Assessment reviewed the state of equality between women and men in Croatia in endowments, economic opportunities, and voice and agency. Overall, the country has made progress on including gender equality both institutiona...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/237711560532005820/Investing-in-Opportunities-for-All-Croatia-Country-Gender-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31937 |
| Summary: | The Croatia Country Gender Assessment
reviewed the state of equality between women and men in
Croatia in endowments, economic opportunities, and voice and
agency. Overall, the country has made progress on including
gender equality both institutionally and legally into its
policy agenda. Certain indicators of gender equality remain
strong, such as equitable primary and secondaryschool
enrollment for boys and girls. A closer look reveals areas
that need to be improved, such as equality in the labor
market, women's entrepreneurship and role in politics
and business, the situation of Roma women, rural and urban
disparities, care work distribution between men and women,
and the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
and intersex (LGBTI) people.The most significant gap is in
access to economic opportunities, with a large number of
women, youth, retirees, and minorities excluded from the
labor market. Sustainable and effective solutions for this
complex issue lie in a whole of government effort covering
education andskills development, including retraining and
lifelong learning; equity in healthcare; provision of care
services to enable women to enter the labor market; and
inclusive entrepreneurship. The findings are in line with
some of the issues raised in the Croatia Systematic Country
Diagnostic of the World Bank; this assessment unpacks these
issues in more detail and identifies additional areas for
attention. The World Bank could use its engagement with the
Government of Croatia to advocate for these issues, and to
look for entry points in its current portfolio and pipeline.
To this end, a Gender Roadmap has been developed under the
Country Partnership Framework (2019-2024) that will focus on
how some of the gender gaps could be reduced through the
Bank's current and future engagements, and progress
tracked periodically. It shows a commitment by the Bank to
follow up on the findings and the recommendations arising
from this assessment. The conclusions have been arrived at
using mixed methods, supplementing quantitative sources with
qualitative tools. The assessment is also innovative in
highlighting the intersectionality of overlapping
disadvantages arising from social and spatial exclusion. It
does this by bringing in voices of the youth, elderly women,
Roma, and LGBTI from Slavonia (one of the least-developed
parts of the country), and Zagreb (the most developed). For
instance, the cumulative disadvantages for an elderly rural
woman in less-developed Slavonia is not the same as that for
a woman of similar age in the capital Zagreb. |
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