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83 Foreign Aff. 80 (2004)
The Payoff from Women's Rights

handle is hein.journals/fora83 and id is 470 raw text is: The Payoff From Women's Rights Isobel Coleman THE COST OF INEQUALITY OVER THE PAST DECADE, significant research has demonstrated what many have known for a long time: women are critical to economic development, active civil society, and good governance, especially in developing countries. Focusing on women is often the best way to reduce birth rates and child mortality; improve health, nutrition, and education; stem the spread of HI/AIDS; build robust and self-sustaining community organizations; and encourage grassroots democracy. Much like human rights a generation ago, women's rights were long considered too controversial for mainstream foreign policy. For decades, international development agencies skirted gender issues in highly patriarchal societies. Now, however, they increasingly see women's empowerment as critical to their mandate. The Asian Development Bank is promoting gender-sensitive judicial and police reforms in Pakistan, for example, and the World Bank supports training for female political candidates in Morocco. The United States, too, is increasingly embracing women's rights, as a way not only to foster democracy, but also to promote development, curb extremism, and fight terrorism, all core strategic objectives. Women's status has advanced in many countries: gender gaps in infant mortality rates, calorie consumption, school enrollment, lit- eracy levels, access to health care, and political participation have narrowed steadily. And those changes have benefited society at large, ISOBEL COLEMAN is a Senior Fellow on U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. [8o]

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