Journal of International Development
March 2014  Volume 26, Issue 2  Pages 155–302
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jid.v26.1/issuetoc

Review Article
GENDER INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A CRITICAL REVIEW
David Cuberes1,*, Marc Teignier2
Article first published online: 29 NOV 2013
DOI: 10.1002/jid.2983
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jid.2983/abstract

Abstract
The link between gender inequality and economic growth is a topic that is of growing interest, both in the academic literature and the policy arena. In this paper, we survey the literature that analyses this relationship from a macroeconomic perspective. We argue that that the existing theories provide a wide range of mechanisms through which these two variables may affect each other but also that more work needs to be carried out to obtain quantitative predictions out of these models. In the empirical arena, we note the lack of connection between most studies and the existing theories described earlier. In both cases, we propose approaches to alleviate these problems.