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To be sure, tackling gender inequality is a complex, long-term challenge that requires broad social engagement.
In Asia’s booming Internet market, digital technologies could be a double-edged sword: If the gender gap is not closed, women will be left on the sidelines of the technology-driven revolution sweeping the region.
A fourth priority is to change social attitudes about gender roles.
The final priority is to pursue more regional collaboration to achieve gender equality.
Now is the time to accelerate progress toward gender parity, and to women’s power to deliver growth and improve social wellbeing.
Gender selection is another hotly debated potential application of PGD.
Gender selection may be clinically justified in order to prevent transmission of a sex-linked disease, such as hemophilia.
Interestingly, as several heads of US Congressional committees have pointed out, it is in America’s interest for the Bank to be led by the most qualified person, selected in an open and transparent process, regardless of nationality, gender, or race.
So we are left with the broader question: does gender really matter in leadership?
Lack of experience, primary caregiver responsibilities, bargaining style, and plain old discrimination all help to explain the gender gap.
Women are generally not well integrated into male networks that dominate organizations, and gender stereotypes still hamper women who try to overcome such barriers.
Questions of appropriate style – when to use hard and soft skills – are equally relevant for men and women, and should not be clouded by traditional gender stereotypes.
The key choices about war and peace in our future will depend not on gender, but on how leaders combine hard- and soft-power skills to produce smart strategies.
South Asia’s worst problems – poverty, conflict, hunger, and gender inequalities – are largely concentrated in its lagging regions, where there are limits to growth, because geography, institutions, and globalization will continue to favor the concentration of economic activity in the leading regions.
His proposal, which aims to reform the curriculum to include Islamic studies, gender studies, computer science, and English, should receive overwhelming support.
Rampant illiteracy underpins other problems, including exploding populations, gender imbalances, and widespread poverty.
In Tunisia, the middle class has come under intense pressure, constitutionally guaranteed gender equality is under threat, and conservative and Salafist forces are trying, often violently, to erode and dismantle the Republic’s secular foundations.
Linguistic fragmentation, unfamiliar religious and racial customs, different attitudes toward gender relationships -- all seem to undermine the cozy identity that Europeans and Americans associate with territorial jurisdictions.
It would have a prosecutor and a reasonable number of judges, nominated with a view to balanced representation of the world’s principal legal systems and geographical regions, and to gender equity.
Even in countries where gender equality has advanced furthest, women are over-represented in lower-paying jobs, under-represented in senior government and business positions, and on the receiving end of most domestic violence.
Much has been achieved since then, including in the area of gender equality, but we still have a long way to go.
So how can we achieve the most gender equality at the lowest cost?
So which targets to increase gender equality should be included?
It is clear that gender equality has a number of important components, but reproduction is a key issue in determining life opportunities.
But there are other gender targets to consider.
There is no simple way to achieve something as complex as gender equality.
And we now have stronger information for other gender targets when they compete with targets related to nutrition, health, poverty, and the environment.
We cannot eradicate poverty, protect people from pandemics, advance gender equality, or achieve any of the other 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) without accelerating progress toward universal health coverage.
Today, the World Bank and other development agencies are mapping out the global development priorities that will follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which officially end in 2015 and included specific targets for promoting gender equality and empowering women as a strategy for economic growth.
Looking ahead, the Bank should take the same approach to LGBT rights and make legal protections for sexual orientation and gender identity a condition for countries receiving loans.
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