TITLE

Identifying and Addressing Gender Issues in Doing Business

AUTHOR(S)

Hampel-Milagrosa, Aim�e

PUB. DATE

July 2010

SOURCE

European Journal of Development Research;Jul2010, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p349

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Doing Business, the World Bank's annual flagship publication, claims that payoffs for women from regulatory reform are large despite a lack of explicit focus on social factors affecting the economic participation of women. Taking off from our previous findings that discrimination hindering women's economic participation originate at the level of traditions and perpetuate at the level of regulations, this article suggests a combined qualitative and quantitative methodology that addresses gender issues in the Doing Business project. The approach evaluates discrimination at the level of traditions with one of two quantitative methodological options that incorporate gender perspectives at the regulatory level.�Doing Business�, la publication phare annuelle de la Banque Mondiale, affirme que la r�forme de la r�glementation est favorable aux femmes malgr� l�absence explicite de prise en compte des facteurs sociaux ayant un impact sur la participation des femmes dans l��conomie. Partant de notre constatation ant�rieure que la discrimination qui fait obstacle � la participation des femmes dans l��conomie trouve ses racines dans les traditions et est maintenue par la r�glementation, cet article propose une m�thodologie combinant une approche qualitative et une approche quantitative pour aborder la question de l��galit� des sexes dans le projet �Doing Business�. Cette approche �value la discrimination au niveau des traditions en appliquant une de deux m�thodes quantitatives qui prennent en compte la question des diff�rences entre les sexes au niveau de la r�glementation.

ACCESSION #

51632270

Tags: DISCRIMINATION in employment;  SEX discrimination in employment;  EQUAL pay for equal work;  WOMEN -- Employment;  GENDER inequality;  WORLD Bank Group

 

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