research findings show that in addition to fulfilling fundamental human rights addressing gender discrimination in social institutions is needed to improve individual outcomes for women and ultimately enhance the wellbeing of current and future generations ferrant and nowacka if discriminatory social institutions are associated with lower levels of longterm growth after accounting for the standard determinants of growth and gender differences in key socioeconomic outcomes then the case is strong for including policies and programmes that directly target discriminatory social institutions in national development strategies little is known however about the effect of genderbased discrimination in social institutions on economic growth