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Giving Women Economic Opportunity: World Bank Initiatives

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Editorials

What did the WBG Gender Action Plan (2007 - 2010) achieve?

Gender Equality as Smart Economics—Making Engineers, Agricultural Specialists, Lawyers and Mainstream Economists Care About Gender Equality... Read More

Gender in Agriculture

After the Tsunami: Women and Land Reforms in Aceh

By securing land and property rights, women have positively impacted post-disaster recovery and reconstruction efforts in Aceh... Read More

Gender in infrastructure

Building Capacity

The Gender Action Plan funded three regional workshops at which some 200 World Bank staff in the Sustainable Development Network... Read More

Gender in Labor Markets

Turkey's Greatest Untapped Potential: Women

The reason why the share of women holding or seeking employment in Turkey has been decreasing is partly because women migrated from rural areas... Read More

Gender in the Private Sector

Helping Women Succeed As Entrepreneurs

Through the GAP, a program was developed to support female entrepreneurship at the research and operational level... Read More

The Adolescent Girls Initiative

Investing in Young Women as Smart Economics

In October 2008, the World Bank launched the Adolescent Girls Initiative, a public-private partnership to promote the transition of adolescent girls and young women... Read More

 

Gender Action Plan Newsletters & Booklet

- Spring 2011 Edition (PDF 3.2 MB)
- Fall 2010 Edition (PDF 1700 KB)
- Spring 2010 Edition (PDF 1879 KB)

- Fall 2009 Edition (PDF 450 KB)
- Spring 2009 Edition (PDF 547 KB)

- Fall 2008 Edition (PDF 620 KB)
- Spring 2008 Edition (PDF 640KB)




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