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Engaging gender equality in the economic-productive sphere

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  • Beatriz Muriel Hernández

    (Executive Director and Senior Principal Researcher of INESAD)

  • Daniela Romero Romay

    (Associate Researcher of INESAD)

Abstract

This study reviews the conceptual framework of the economic-productive sphere and of gender equality, the aim of which is to establish theoretical-practical lines allowing progress in engaging these two spheres. In this context, equality in opportunities and in rights can be harmonized, though equality of “responsibilities, resources and retribution” by gender are more difficult to reconcile. Also, women’s (economic) empowerment – seen as a way of promoting gender equality – possesses a degree of relation with the theory of growth and wellbeing when an individual has the role of consumer, for which “capabilities” are needed for selecting valuable “functionings”. However, when such a woman takes on the role of worker, producer or businesswoman, her seeking of a high level of economic-productive performance does not imply that she is empowered, nor does the latter imply the former; though there may be a positive correlation between the two. On this basis, economic-productive interventions may harmonize with equality of opportunities by gender.

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  • Beatriz Muriel Hernández & Daniela Romero Romay, 2024. "Engaging gender equality in the economic-productive sphere," Development Research Working Paper Series 03/2024, Institute for Advanced Development Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:adv:wpaper:202403
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    Keywords

    Economic Growth; Social Well-being; Gender; Gender Equality; Empowerment.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J29 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Other
    • J39 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Other
    • J83 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Workers' Rights

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