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The
IMF & Gender: A Long Way to Go
In
this Bretton Woods Project brief Elaine Zuckerman
assesses the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Discussion Note,
"Women, Work, and the Economy: Macroeconomic Gains from Gender
Equity" (WWE). This best IMF gender-focused report to date shows that the
IMF has a long way to go to realize gender justice. WWE promotes an
'instrumentalist' strategy that upholds women's employment as an instrument to
boost economic growth. It needs to complementarily promote women's and men's equal
rights -- a key women's movement demand to end patriarchal patterns and
feminization of poverty propelled by IMF structural adjustment loans.
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