1. What Promotes Advancements?
Rights, freedoms, laws
Changes in social attitudes
Level of education matters
Family size matters
Dev. programs may help (or hinder)
Opportunities matter
Work
Training
More access- banking, mobile phones

2. Challenges to Development
Social norms persist
Stay at home, social status
Spousal, village leader consent
Jobs go to men 1st
Kids suffer if women work
♀ work rates decline w/ growth
Domestic duties
Harder to work in cities than rural areas
May want to work, but lack opportunities
♀ more educated

3. Challenges (cont.) Outdated labor laws
Maternity leave
Little political attention, representation
Public safety concerns
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Banking challenges

4. Recap Economic need pushes ♀ into work Patriarchal norms reinforced
Need gender equality for development
Need development for gender equality
Economic need pushes ♀ into work
Data collection, programs gender-biased