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The paper aims to provide an overview of
the gender disparities in three major domains-human capital,
labor market and entrepreneurship. In doing so, it builds on
the framework of the World Bank's regional gender
report opportunities for men and women: emerging Europe and
Central Asia (World Bank, 2011) and the world development
report on gender and development (World Bank, 2011). This
joint gender assessment work has the objectives of analyzing
the gender dimensions of development of the country and
proposing a conceptual framework which will assist in
explaining gender inequality and recommending public actions
for consideration by policy makers and civil society. This
report is an input into the larger country gender
assessment. In agreement with the other partners, the scope
of this report is limited to quantitative analysis of the
gender aspects of the human capital development, labor
market disparities, entrepreneurship, career advancement and
wage differentials, using nationally representative
household survey data. The rest of this paper is organized
as follows: section one provides an analysis of gender
disparities in human capital focusing on education and
health outcomes, section two describes men's and
women's employment patterns, section three discusses
differences in earnings, section four focuses on men's
and women's entrepreneurship and possibilities for
career advancement in business and politics and section five
provides concluding observations.
