Gender, Trade and the WTO : Speaking Notes for the WTO Public Symposium Challenges ahead on the road to Cancún, Geneva, June 16, 2003
Abstract
This paper provides that trade and trade policy is not gender-neutral: government leaders have recognized there are differential impacts on women and men, and have made commitments to take steps to ensure that trade policies do not have an adverse impact on women’s economic activities.
National governments need to develop capacity to understand how gender can constrain a country’s capacity to take advantage of the opportunities presented by trade liberalization. They also need to develop capacity to identify those groups that will be most negatively affected by a proposed trade policy, so that adequate steps can be taken to protect those groups, and, where feasible, measures designed to facilitate their entry into new sectors opened up as a result of trade liberalization. This may involve decisions in on the pace, scope and sequencing of trade policies.
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Keywords :
/Gender equality//Gender and trade//Women Empowerment // Gender and World Trade Organization /