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Brym, Robert J., Chung, Stephanie, Dulmage, Sarah, Farahat, Christian, Greenberg, Mark, Ho, Manki, Housein, Khadra, Kulik, Dina, Lau, Matthew, Maginley, Olivia, Nercessian, Armen, Le Blanc, Emilio Reyes, Sacher, Adrian, Sachewsky, Nadia, Sadovsky, Alex, Singh, Stephen, Sivananthan, Shankar, Toller, Nick, Vossoughi, Sara, Weger, Krista |
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Canadian Journal of Sociology; Winter2005, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p95-111, 17p, 6 Diagrams, 1 Chart |
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This article comments on the World Bank's gender development policy. Outside the field of economics, it is customary among social scientists to deride the World Bank for its neoliberalism. The standard argument is that the structural adjustment programmes (SAP) favored by the bank in the 1980s and 1990s sought to impose free market conditions on the less developed countries. Critics also underline the double standard maintained by the wealthy countries that finance the World Bank's activities and support its policies. From a feminist perspective, SAP negatively affects women with young children and that it reinforces traditional gender roles. These criticisms began to lose some of their incisiveness in 1999, when the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund admitted that many of their development policies gave failed. They asked poor countries to draw up their own Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, and called for the mainstreaming of gender-equality issues in such papers. To support its claim that gender equality goes hand-in-hand with economic growth, the World Bank commissioned studies showing that greater economic equality between women and men is associated with reduced poverty, increased Gross Domestic Product, and better governance. |
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