TY - JOUR
T1 - World Development Report 2012
T2 - Radical redistribution or just tinkering within the template?
AU - Evans, Alice Henriette Cartwright
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The World Development Report 2012, rather radically, responds to employment segregation by advocating affirmative action. This move could prove momentous – mainstreaming a hitherto peripheral feminist cause. Drawing on research about changing gender roles in Zambia's Copperbelt, this paper demonstrates the importance of creating role models through active labour market interventions. However, apart from the World Bank's commendably radical push for redistribution, its macroeconomic template remains remarkably intact – neither perturbed by the global economic crisis nor by much feminist economic
AB - The World Development Report 2012, rather radically, responds to employment segregation by advocating affirmative action. This move could prove momentous – mainstreaming a hitherto peripheral feminist cause. Drawing on research about changing gender roles in Zambia's Copperbelt, this paper demonstrates the importance of creating role models through active labour market interventions. However, apart from the World Bank's commendably radical push for redistribution, its macroeconomic template remains remarkably intact – neither perturbed by the global economic crisis nor by much feminist economic
U2 - 10.1057/dev.2011.115
DO - 10.1057/dev.2011.115
M3 - Article
SN - 0950-1991
VL - 55
JO - Development
JF - Development
IS - 1
ER -