Gender Equality and the Labour Market: Cambodia, Kazakhstan and Philippines

Asian Development Bank Institute

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Abstract: Increasing job opportunities and decent work for women are essential for inclusive growth, and they are vital for advancing economic and social development in a country. This approach to attaining economic and social wealth is based on reliable academic and statistical evidence and is increasingly accepted by international and national financial and development organizations across the globe. In Asia, mostly women continue to experience the greatest disadvantages resulting from gender inequalities and entrenched discrimination in work and in life. The economic and social contributions made by women in the family, the workplace, and society tend to be devalued. There are, however, many strategies which have been developed to counter gender discrimination and promote equality for working men and women through legislation and social and economic policies to reverse the unequal labor market outcomes for women.

Keywords: gender; equity; labour; market; discrimination; economy; income; Cambodia; Kazakhstan; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01
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