2017年CRI World Bank adopts gender equality strategy in lending money

 

Economists¹ say that when gender² equality increases, poverty is reduced.

Swedish Minister for Finance Magadalena Andersson (left), Swedish Minister for Children, the Elderly and Gender Equality Asa Regner (middle) and World Bank's Senior Director in Gender Caren Grown discussed mainstreaming gender equality budget for better development in Stockholm on May 17, 2017. [Photo: Chen Xuefei/China Plus]

With that in mind, the World Bank has recently adopted a gender equality strategy in relation to its lending policy worldwide.

The inspiration to the move has come in part from Sweden, which has been promoting gender equality policies for the last ten years.

CRI's Chen Xuefei caught up with the World Bank's Senior Director for Gender Caren Grown, who was on a visit to Stockholm.

Caren Grown was in the Swedish capital to discuss gender equality policies with the Swedish Finance Minister, Magadalena Andersson, and Minister for Children, the Elderly and Gender Equality, Asa Regner.

She cites Swedish Feminist⁴ policy as an inspiration, and gender equality policies as crucial to realizing the World Bank's recently adopted gender equality strategy.

"This new strategy on gender equality is oriented in closing gaps between men and women in education and health, in the labor⁵ market particularly, and in creating more and better jobs, also helping⁶ women in owning assets, key assets like land and housing and technology and finance."

Grown believes the Swedish experience has shown that if women are given equal support, it boosts economic development generally.

"Because we recognized that in the processes of closing gap between men and women, it actually resulted better outcome for a country or for a sector⁷, such as agricultural sector, or even for a company itself, in terms of its own business strategy and its own profitability."

Sweden also implements⁹ a feminist foreign aid policy. That means, when they give foreign aid to developing countries, equal opportunities must be guaranteed.

Gender should be central to government policy, says Swedish Minister, Asa Regner.

"This is important because it is the rights issue. That women and men should have the same rights. To mainstream³ the national budget from a gender equality perspective is actually a way of safeguarding like you do treat women and men equally, but it is also a smart economic thing. "

Regner also says where governments implement⁸ financial policies to help with caring for the elderly and children, it is also a way to liberate¹⁰ women so that they can better contribute to economic development.

"In many countries, if elderly care doesn't work as an organized service, then women are many times those who take care of their elderly fathers or mothers also and that inhibits¹¹ their own work in the labor market and their contribution to the national economy and so on and so forth¹²."

1 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

3 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。

4 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

5 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

6 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

7 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

8 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

9 implements   

n.工具( implement的名词复数 )；家具；手段；[法律]履行（契约等）v.实现( implement的第三人称单数 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• Primitive man hunted wild animals with crude stone implements. 原始社会的人用粗糙的石器猎取野兽。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• They ordered quantities of farm implements. 他们订购了大量农具。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

10 liberate   

v.解放，使获得自由，释出，放出；vt.解放，使获自由

参考例句：

• They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
• This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。

11 inhibits   

阻止，抑制( inhibit的第三人称单数 )； 使拘束，使尴尬

参考例句：

• A small manufacturing sector inhibits growth in the economy. 制造业规模太小有碍经济增长。
• His bad English inhibits him from speaking freely. 他英语学得不好，这使他不能表达自如。

12 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。