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Breaking Barriers: Toward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysia

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-30T19:40:01Z
dc.date.available2019-09-30T19:40:01Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.description.abstractThe promotion of economic opportunities for women is one of the most promising avenues for Malaysia's future development. Closing gaps between men's and women's economic opportunities could boost Malaysia's income per capita by 26.2 percent. Against this backdrop, the report relies on a comprehensive mixed-methods approach to investigate constraints on improving women's economic opportunities. It finds that Malaysia's female labor force participation rate has risen significantly in recent years but is still low compared to other countries in ASEAN. In addition, there are wide gender gap in access to jobs that pay well and offer benefits, social protection, and career prospects. Policy directions for improving the economic opportunities for women in Malaysia should include: (1) expand the availability, quality and affordability of child and elder care to enable more women to stay in the labor market and to work in more productive jobs; (2) strengthen the protection of informal workers and the productivity of workers and business owners to harness women's full economic potential; (3) pursue planned reforms of the legal environment and strengthen the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of laws and regulations, (4) improve support for parents, in line with international legal norms and (5) address gender norms and attitudes in education and among the wider population.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734461569247873555/Breaking-Barriers-Toward-Better-Economic-Opportunities-for-Women-in-Malaysia
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/32476
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/32476
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe Malaysia Development Experience Series;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
dc.subjectENROLLMENT
dc.subjectEDUCATION
dc.subjectGENDER GAP
dc.subjectFEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectWAGE GAP
dc.subjectWOMEN IN BUSINESS
dc.titleBreaking Barriersen
dc.title.subtitleToward Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Malaysiaen
dc.typeReporten
dc.typeRapportfr
dc.typeInformees
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crossref.titleBreaking Barriers
okr.date.disclosure2019-09-26
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Social Protection Study
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734461569247873555/Breaking-Barriers-Toward-Better-Economic-Opportunities-for-Women-in-Malaysia
okr.guid734461569247873555
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/32476
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b087120e1f_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31425928
okr.identifier.report142011
okr.importedtrueen
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734461569247873555/pdf/Breaking-Barriers-Toward-Better-Economic-Opportunities-for-Women-in-Malaysia.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryMalaysia
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Education
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Wages, Compensation & Benefits
okr.unitEACMA - WB Office: Kuala Lumpur (EACMA)
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