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Navigating Education, Motherhood, and Informal Labor: The Experiences of Young Women in Luanda

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T17:13:49Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T17:13:49Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-26
dc.description.abstractGender equality is a key foundation of inclusive and sustainable economic development that can translate into long-term and effective poverty reduction. While gender equality matters on its own as a human right, it also offers instrumental value for individuals, households, and societies at large. Global evidence consistently shows that empowering women and girls reduces poverty incidence and food insecurity, boosts economic growth and productivity, and enhances investments in children’s human capital. Angola, a country where a third of the population lives in poverty and economic output is heavily dependent on its oil sector, stands out in Sub-Saharan Africa for its particularly large gender disparities, especially when compared to countries of same income levels. Family formation, education, and labor market decisions are intrinsically interwoven and connected, which in the case of Angola leads to extreme demographic pressure on an already weak public service system. To begin tackling these significant gender disparities, well-designed and targeted policies are needed. But there are significant knowledge gaps when it comes to understanding the key barriers facing Angolan girls and young women in accessing education and transitioning to the labor market. This report presents insights gained from the voices of young women and girls, their parents, and key informants through a series of interviews carried out in Luanda, home to a quarter of the country’s population, in 2022. Based on these in-depth interviews with low-income young women in Luanda, this report points to the multiple challenges they face across their life cycle - challenges relating to the dimensions of education, family formation, and work. It also shows how those dimensions in a woman’s life are deeply interconnected - and how they are determined by structural constraints including poverty and vulnerability, gender norms, corruption and lack of transparency in access to services and opportunities, and violence in public and private spheres.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099091323115060629/P1804940d6f59a07c0b3000a7c09c87f14e
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40401
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40401
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGENDER EQUALITY
dc.subjectEDUCATION AND WORK
dc.subjectGENDER NORMS
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectGENDER BASED VIOLENCE
dc.subjectWOMEN AND GIRLS
dc.subjectTEENAGE PREGNANCIES
dc.subjectINFORMAL TRADING
dc.titleNavigating Education, Motherhood, and Informal Laboren
dc.title.subtitleThe Experiences of Young Women in Luandaen
dc.typeReport
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okr.crossref.titleNavigating Education, Motherhood, and Informal Labor: The Experiences of Young Women in Luanda
okr.date.disclosure2023-09-26
okr.date.lastmodified2023-09-14T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Women in Development and Gender Study
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099091323115060629/P1804940d6f59a07c0b3000a7c09c87f14e
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okr.identifier.docmidP180494-d6f59abd-d9ca-4c7c-b300-a7c09c87f14e
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40401
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34161256
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34161256
okr.identifier.report184876
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099091323115060629/pdf/P1804940d6f59a07c0b3000a7c09c87f14e.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.countryAngola
okr.sectorSocial Protection
okr.themeInclusive Growth,Job Creation,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Data Development and Capacity Building,Economic Policy,Economic Growth and Planning,Private Sector Development,Public Sector Management,Jobs,Data production, accessibility and use
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicLaw and Development::Human Rights
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Standards
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicGender::Gender and Education
okr.unitEFI-Poverty and Equity-GE (EPVGE)
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