Keeping Women Out Of The Workforce Is Economic Nonsense (NPR)

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Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, says that restrictions on work opportunities for women often spring from cultural and religious beliefs. That makes change slow to come. The IMF statistics, he wryly adds, "are not going to instantly turn Saudi Arabia into a haven for gender equality."

But, he says, the report is "one more piece of evidence that removing sex-based barriers to work can unleash impressive economic growth."

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