PHM-Exch> International Women's Day: A Century of Advocacy

[Claudio Schuftan]

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> International Women's Day: A Century of Advocacy
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> Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. The 2010
> Human Development Report (
> http://e2ma.net/go/6984649812/208489002/219971882/36353/goto:http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/
> ) introduced the Gender Inequality Index (
> http://e2ma.net/go/6984649812/208489002/219971883/36353/goto:http://hdr.undp.org/en/mediacentre/news/announcements/title,22853,en.html
> ) to meet the challenge of measuring the disadvantages faced by women around
> the world. The Gender Inequality Index is a composite measure reflecting
> inequality in achievements between women and men in three dimensions:
> health, empowerment and the labour market. The Gender Inequality Index is
> designed to reveal the extent to which national human development
> achievements are eroded by gender inequality, and to provide empirical
> foundations for policy analysis and advocacy efforts. Read more (
> http://e2ma.net/go/6984649812/208489002/219971884/36353/goto:http://hdr.undp.org/en/mediacentre/news/announcements/title,22853,en.html
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> -Top 10 Worst and Best Performers of the GII (
> http://e2ma.net/go/6984649812/208489002/219971885/36353/goto:http://hdr.undp.org/en/mediacentre/news/announcements/title,22853,en.html
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> -Gender Inequality Index (updated) (
> http://e2ma.net/go/6984649812/208489002/219971886/36353/goto:http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/89106.html
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> -About the index (
> http://e2ma.net/go/6984649812/208489002/219971887/36353/goto:http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/gii/
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