Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/297026 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Development Research Working Paper Series No. 02/2024
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), La Paz
Abstract (Translated): 
This working paper is a review of 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 "functionings" that may be valued. However, when such a woman takes on the role of worker, producer or businesswoman, her seeking 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.
Subjects: 
economic growth
economic-productive
social well-being
gender equality
empowerment
JEL: 
A12
D63
I31
J16
O4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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