Breaking Barriers : Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia

The promotion of economic opportunities for women is one of the most promising avenues for Malaysia's future development. Closing gaps between men's and women's economic opportunities could boost Malaysia's income per capita by...

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Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ENROLLMENT EDUCATION GENDER GAP FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET EMPLOYMENT WAGE GAP WOMEN IN BUSINESS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734461569247873555/Breaking-Barriers-Toward-Better-Economic-Opportunities-for-Women-in-Malaysia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32476

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spelling	okr-10986-324762021-05-25T09:56:24Z Breaking Barriers : Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia World Bank Group EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ENROLLMENT EDUCATION GENDER GAP FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET EMPLOYMENT WAGE GAP WOMEN IN BUSINESS The promotion of economic opportunities for women is one of the most promising avenues for Malaysia's future development. Closing gaps between men's and women's economic opportunities could boost Malaysia's income per capita by 26.2 percent. Against this backdrop, the report relies on a comprehensive mixed-methods approach to investigate constraints on improving women's economic opportunities. It finds that Malaysia's female labor force participation rate has risen significantly in recent years but is still low compared to other countries in ASEAN. In addition, there are wide gender gap in access to jobs that pay well and offer benefits, social protection, and career prospects. Policy directions for improving the economic opportunities for women in Malaysia should include: (1) expand the availability, quality and affordability of child and elder care to enable more women to stay in the labor market and to work in more productive jobs; (2) strengthen the protection of informal workers and the productivity of workers and business owners to harness women's full economic potential; (3) pursue planned reforms of the legal environment and strengthen the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of laws and regulations, (4) improve support for parents, in line with international legal norms and (5) address gender norms and attitudes in education and among the wider population. 2019-09-30T19:40:01Z 2019-09-30T19:40:01Z 2019-09 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734461569247873555/Breaking-Barriers-Toward-Better-Economic-Opportunities-for-Women-in-Malaysia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32476 English The Malaysia Development Experience Series; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Social Protection Study East Asia and Pacific Malaysia
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description	The promotion of economic opportunities for women is one of the most promising avenues for Malaysia's future development. Closing gaps between men's and women's economic opportunities could boost Malaysia's income per capita by 26.2 percent. Against this backdrop, the report relies on a comprehensive mixed-methods approach to investigate constraints on improving women's economic opportunities. It finds that Malaysia's female labor force participation rate has risen significantly in recent years but is still low compared to other countries in ASEAN. In addition, there are wide gender gap in access to jobs that pay well and offer benefits, social protection, and career prospects. Policy directions for improving the economic opportunities for women in Malaysia should include: (1) expand the availability, quality and affordability of child and elder care to enable more women to stay in the labor market and to work in more productive jobs; (2) strengthen the protection of informal workers and the productivity of workers and business owners to harness women's full economic potential; (3) pursue planned reforms of the legal environment and strengthen the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of laws and regulations, (4) improve support for parents, in line with international legal norms and (5) address gender norms and attitudes in education and among the wider population.
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title	Breaking Barriers : Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia
title_short	Breaking Barriers : Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia
title_full	Breaking Barriers : Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Breaking Barriers : Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Breaking Barriers : Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia
title_sort	breaking barriers : toward better economic opportunities for women in malaysia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734461569247873555/Breaking-Barriers-Toward-Better-Economic-Opportunities-for-Women-in-Malaysia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32476
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