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Voice and Agency
Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity
Jeni Klugman, Lucia Hanmer, Sarah Twigg, Tazeen Hasan, Jennifer McCleary-Sills, Julieth
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Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Authors xv
Abbreviations xvii
OVERVIEW
Why voice and agency? 1
Context 2
Where do we stand? 3
Determinants and drivers 4
Overlapping disadvantages and agency deprivations 5
Overarching policies and measuring progress 6
Promising interventions targeting agency deprivations 8
Data gaps and the way ahead 9
References 10
CHAPTER 1
FRAMING THE CHALLENGE: NORMS, CONSTRAINTS, AND
DEPRIVATIONS
Introduction 11
Why agency? 12
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CHAPTER 2
ENHANCING WOMEN’S AGENCY: A CROSS-CUTTING AGENDA
The role of cross-cutting public actions 37
Changing social norms 38
Changing norms by working with men and boys, households, and communities 38
Using broadcast media 41
A progressive legal framework 43
Evolving constitutions and principles of equality 44
Supporting effective implementation and enforcement 45
Expanding access to justice through customary processes 47
Increasing women’s agency through sectoral policies and programs 47
Expanding economic opportunities and training 48
Designing gender-responsive social protection 51
Increasing gender equality in education 53
Notes 56
References 57
CHAPTER 3
FREEDOM FROM VIOLENCE
Gender-based violence as a development challenge 63
How large is the challenge? 66
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CHAPTER 4
CONTROL OVER SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND
RIGHTS
The nature of the challenge 101
How great is the challenge? 103
Fertility choices 104
Early sexual activity and pregnancy 106
Child marriage 109
Program and policy evidence: What works? 112
Engaging men and other gatekeepers 112
Improving access to and quality of information and services 113
Promoting alternatives to early marriage 116
Implementing legal responses 119
Notes 120
References 121
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CHAPTER 5
CONTROL OVER LAND AND HOUSING
Women’s control over land and housing as a development challenge 130
Potentially transformative effects 131
What do ownership and control mean? 132
How large is the challenge? 134
Existing disparities 135
Marital status and work 137
Laws and norms 138
Default marital property regimes 140
Weak implementation of laws 142
The state of the evidence: What works? 143
Ensuring gender equality under the law 144
Ensuring effective implementation of laws and land policies 146
Notes 149
References 149
CHAPTER 6
AMPLIFYING VOICES
Why women’s voice and participation matter 155
Driving social change for women’s agency: The role of ICTs 157
Using ICTs to increase voice and participation 157
Addressing the digital divide 158
Collective action as a catalyst for change 159
The potential of women’s political voice and participation 162
Underrepresentation and biased gender norms 163
Attitudes toward female leadership that affect women’s political participation 166
Quotas that reduce barriers to women’s participation 167
Implications for policy 168
Increasing access to ICTs and making content relevant 168
Supporting collective action 169
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CHAPTER 7
CLOSING GAPS IN DATA AND EVIDENCE
Monitoring change and assessing progress 181
Country-level data 182
Internationally agreed gender indicators 182
Available data and indicators 185
Initiatives to close data and evidence gaps 185
Composite indices 190
Program-and project-level indicators and emerging good practice 191
Notes 195
References 195
Appendix: Background Papers 199
Index 201
BOXES
1.1 What is agency? 13
1.2 Women’s mobility: Evidence on freedom of movement 15
1.3 Multiple disadvantages among adolescent Hmong girls 21
1.4 Norms about masculinity shape men’s behavior 26
2.1 In Tostan’s footsteps 42
2.2 New African constitutions reshaping gender norms: South Africa and Kenya 44
2.3 How the Adolescent Girls Initiative is helping to overcome agency constraints 50
2.4 Promoting gender equality in school and improving the learning environment 54
2.5 Curriculum reform to promote gender equality through education 55
3.1 What is gender-based violence? Stories from survivors in Tonga 64
3.2 The domestic violence module of the Demographic and Health Surveys 69
3.3 Serving survivors and empowering women in the Great Lakes 74
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FIGURES
O.1 Share of women experiencing overlapping agency deprivations in three domains 7
Share of women experiencing overlapping agency deprivations in three domains
O.2 7
in Niger
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6.2 Attitudes toward women leaders reflected in the share of women in parliament 167
B6.6.1 Accessible urban area, by sex and grade 170
MAPS
Share of ever-partnered women who have experienced physical or sexual
O.1 4
violence or both by an intimate partner
Share of ever-partnered women who have experienced physical or sexual
3.1 67
violence or both by an intimate partner
3.2 Countries with specific legislation criminalizing marital rape 85
4.1 Child marriage prevalence in 111 countries 110
Women’s reported ownership of housing or land, by type of marital property
5.1 141
regime
B6.4.1 Share of female justices in constitutional courts 165
TABLES
1.1 Legal restrictions on married women’s agency 30
2.1 Selected illustrations of programs to enhance agency 39
B2.3.1 The Adolescent Girls Initiative: Lessons Learned 50
7.1 Selected data sources and examples of measures of women’s agency 186
7.2 Analysis of current data gaps and possible ways forward 187
7.3 Selected World Bank Group Gender Core Sector Indicators related to agency 193
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Foreword
Our flagship World Development Report 2012 demonstrated that gender equality and
economic development are inextricably linked. It showed that equality not only guarantees
basic rights but also plays a vital role in promoting the robust, shared growth needed to end
extreme poverty in our increasingly competitive, globalized world. The persistent constraints
and deprivations that prevent many of the world’s women from achieving their potential have
huge consequences for individuals, families, communities, and nations. The 2012 report
recognized that expanding women’s agency—their ability to make decisions and take
advantage of opportunities—is key to improving their lives as well as the world we all share.
Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity represents a
major advance in global knowledge on this critical front. The vast data and thousands of
surveys distilled here cast important light on the nature of constraints women and girls continue
to face globally.
As an anthropologist, I especially welcome the report’s focus on social norms, which act as
powerful prescriptions for how men and women should behave. Even where women can
legally own property, they may not, because those who do become outcasts. Even where girls
go to school and take an interest in math, teachers and parents may direct them away from
certain studies and jobs for which social norms say boys are better suited. Women then enter a
smaller range of jobs with lower barriers to entry, less stability, and lower wages, continuing a
vicious circle of inequality. Overwhelmingly, girls and women also perform the unpaid work
of caregiving, for which they are often penalized with poverty in old age.
Norms over time may become legalized discrimination, which imposes its own steep
economic cost. As the 19th-century philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, laws start “by
recognizing the relations they find already existing…. Those who had already been compelled
to obedience became in this manner legally bound to it.” Rightly, he added, what “color, race,
religion, or in the case of a conquered country, nationality, are to some men, sex is to all
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women,” their subordinate status often codified by law. Today, in 128 countries, laws in fact
treat men and women differently—making it impossible, for example, for a woman to obtain
independently an ID card, own or use property, access credit, or get a job. These constraints
are fundamentally unjust. They are also economically unwise.
The good news is that social norms can and do change. This report identifies promising
opportunities and entry points for lasting transformation, such as interventions that reach across
sectors and include life-skills training, sexual and reproductive health education, conditional
cash transfers, and mentoring. It finds that addressing what the World Health Organization has
identified as an epidemic of violence against women means sharply scaling up engagement
with men and boys.
The report also underlines the vital role information and communication technologies can
play in amplifying women’s voices, expanding their economic and learning opportunities, and
broadening their views and aspirations. As Pakistan’s young activist Malala Yousafzai said of
herself and her peers during our conversation at the World Bank Group in 2013, “We spoke,
we wrote, we raised our voices” through the media. “We spoke and we achieved our goal.
Girls are going back to school and are allowed to go to the market.”
A bold new path toward equality, grounded in fundamental human rights and backed by
evidence and data, is long overdue. The World Bank Group’s twin goals of ending extreme
poverty and boosting shared prosperity demand no less than the full and equal participation of
women and men, girls and boys, around the world.
The World Bank Group is committed to accelerating and enhancing equality in everything
we do and to shining a spotlight on inequality wherever we find it. This report does both. It
should inform the global development agenda going forward and advance momentum toward a
better future for all.
Background analysis was undertaken by Sarah Haddock, Matthew Morton, Josefina Posadas,
Emma Samman, and Sofia Trommlerova, with thanks to Alicia Hammond for technical and
editorial contributions. Zuzana Boehmova, Anjali Fleury, Lisa Fry, Sveinung Kiplesund, Nazia
Moqueet, Sarah Nedolast, Marie-Anne Nsengiyumva, Milad Pournik, and Shaha Riza provided
various inputs.
We are grateful to Caroline Anstey for her support in initiating the work and to the
government of Sweden and the Nordic Trust Fund for their financial support. The Umbrella
Facility for Gender Equality will support dissemination efforts. TrustLaw Connect of the
Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Serena Grant, in particular, are thanked for supporting
several country studies.
The report draws on 14 thematic and country papers, listed in the appendix. It is informed by
more than a dozen consultations since December 2012 in venues ranging from Managua,
Nicaragua, to Kathmandu, Nepal, and benefited greatly from the collective wisdom and
research of our Technical Advisory Group: Gary Barker, Promundo; Lourdes Beneria, Cornell
University; Cheryl Doss, Yale University; Mary Ellsberg, George Washington University;
Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics; Sunita Kishor, Demographic and Health Surveys;
Stephan Klassen, University of Göttingen; Kathleen Kuehnast, U.S. Institute of Peace; Susan
Markham, National Democratic Institute; Lori Michau, Raising Voices; Eppu Mikkonen-
Jeanneret, HelpAge International; Andrew Morrison, Inter-American Development Bank;
Kathleen Newland, Migration Policy Institute; Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy
Research Institute; Charlotte Watts, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Alicia
Yamin, Harvard University; and Lawrence Yanovitch, GSMA Foundation; as well as Sabina
Alkire of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and Alison Evans.
The team would also like to acknowledge the advice and support of World Bank Group
colleagues, particularly Ana Revenga, Senior Director of the Poverty Global Practice; Luis
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Benveniste, Louise Cord, Luis-Felipe López-Calva, and Vijayendra Rao, who acted as peer
reviewers; Sarah Iqbal and the Women, Business, and the Law team for collaboration; and the
World Bank Group’s Gender and Development Board members and others for valuable
comments and inputs.
Led by Sarah Jackson-Han, Malcolm Ehrenpreis, Amy Adkins Harris, and Maura Leary
provided communications support. Administrative support was provided by Dawn Ballantyne,
Maureen Itepu, Ngozi Kalu-Mba, and Mame Niasse.
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