PHM-Exch> The Global Gender Gap Index

[Claudio Schuftan]

.> Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University
> Laura D. Tyson, University of California, Berkeley
> Saadia Zahidi, World Economic Forum
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> Full report at: http://bit.ly/14dI2Mv <http://bit.ly/14dI2Mv>
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> Country Highlights http://bit.ly/VyzBq6 <http://bit.ly/VyzBq6>
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> ".......The Global Gender Gap Index is a framework for capturing the
> magnitude and scope of gender-based disparities and tracking their
> progress.
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> The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political,
> education- and health-based criteria, and provides country rankings that
> allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups, and
> over time.
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> The rankings are designed to create greater awareness among a global
> audience of the challenges posed by gender gaps and the opportunities
> created by reducing them. The methodology and quantitative analysis
> behind the rankings are intended to serve as a basis for designing
> effective measures for reducing gender gaps.
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> ".....The Index is designed to measure gender-based gaps in access to
> resources and opportunities in individual countries rather than the
> actual levels of the available resources and opportunities in those
> countries.
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> ".....The Global Gender Gap Report's index assesses 135 countries,
> representing more than 93% of the world's population, on how well
> resources and opportunities are divided among male and female
> populations. The report measures the size of the gender inequality gap
> in four areas:
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> - Economic participation and opportunity - salaries, participation and
> highly-skilled employment
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> - Education - access to basic and higher levels of education
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> - Political empowerment - representation in decision-making structures
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> - Health and survival - life expectancy and sex ratio
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> Index scores can be interpreted as the percentage of the gap that has
> been closed between women and men. Of these, 111 have been covered since
> the first edition of the report six years ago.
> Thirteen out of the 14 variables used to create the index are from
> publicly available hard data indicators from international organizations
> such as the International Labour Organization, the United Nations
> Development Programme and the World Health Organization....."
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