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Important disclosures appear at the back of this document GS GLOBAL ECONOMIC WEBSITE Economic Research from the GS Institutional Portal at Global Economics Paper No: 164 March 4, 2008 Sandra Lawson Thanks to Michelle Kim, Raluca Dragusanu, Dominic Wilson and Peter Berezin Women Hold Up Half the Sky ■ The Chinese proverb that ‘women hold up half the sky' has long been more aspiration than fact. In developed and developing countries alike, gender gaps persist in education, health, work, wages and political participation.

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