Engendering development through gender equality in rights, resources, and voice

The World Bank has published a comprehensive report on why gender inequality makes bad economic sense and how countries can institutionalize change. It's suggestions are instructive and the arguments will be useful for those who are trying to convince recalcitrant governments to enforce cultural change. The report is long so for those of you who don't wish to read the entire thing I would recommend you focus in particular on section 3 which deals with social norms, laws and economic institutions as well as the recommendations found in section 6 (particularly thouse found on pages 239-240 of the report). However, there are lots of useful statistics, graphs and economic arguments throughout the report and I encourage you to skim sections 1, 2 and 6 if you have the time.