Violent Conflict and Gender Inequality : An Overview

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dc.creatorBuvinic, Mayra
dc.creatorDas Gupta, Monica
dc.creatorCasabonne, Ursula
dc.creatorVerwimp, Philip
dc.date2014-08-20T17:01:27Z
dc.date2014-08-20T17:01:27Z
dc.date2013-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:49:29Z
dc.descriptionViolent conflict, a pervasive feature of the recent global landscape, has lasting impacts on human capital, and these impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics of households, including their demographic profiles and traditional gender roles. To date, attention to the gender impacts of conflict has focused almost exclusively on sexual and gender-based violence. We show that a far wider set of gender issues must be considered to better document the human consequences of war and to design effective postconflict policies. The emerging empirical evidence is organized using a framework that identifies both the differential impacts of violent conflict on males and females (first-round impacts) and the role of gender inequality in framing adaptive responses to conflict (second-round impacts). War's mortality burden is disproportionately borne by males, whereas women and children constitute a majority of refugees and the displaced. Indirect war impacts on health are more equally distributed between the genders. Conflicts create households headed by widows who can be especially vulnerable to intergenerational poverty. Second-round impacts can provide opportunities for women in work and politics triggered by the absence of men. Households adapt to conflict with changes in marriage and fertility, migration, investments in children's health and schooling, and the distribution of labor between the genders. The impacts of conflict are heterogeneous and can either increase or decrease preexisting gender inequalities. Describing these gender differential effects is a first step toward developing evidence-based conflict prevention and postconflict policy.
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dc.identifierWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.identifier1564-6971
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/19494
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/19494
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/411569
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relationWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectaged
dc.subjectfamilies
dc.subjecthealth care
dc.subjecthealth outcomes
dc.subjecthealth services
dc.subjectinfectious diseases
dc.subjectinjuries
dc.subjectmental
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectmorbidity
dc.subjectmortality
dc.subjectolder people
dc.subjectrape
dc.subjectrefugees
dc.subjectsexual violence
dc.subjectsocial services
dc.subjectvaccination
dc.subjectvictims
dc.subjectviolence
dc.subjectworkers
dc.titleViolent Conflict and Gender Inequality : An Overview
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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