Unrealized Potential: The High Cost of Gender Inequality in Earnings
- Publisher:
- World Bank
- Publication Date:
- 3 March 2020
- Tags:
- Africa, Economy, Business and Finance, Human Rights, Women and Gender
Gender inequality has major economic implications for women, communities, and countries in a range of areas (see the framework used for this series of notes in Appendix 1). While the cost of gender inequality - in terms of human capital losses - for development is not solely due to losses in earnings, the impact of gender inequality on earnings is key. This is the area on which this note focuses.
