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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="3" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">The Global Gender Gap Index 2010</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard
University</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Laura D. Tyson, University
of California, Berkeley</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Saadia Zahidi,World Economic Forum</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">World Economic Forum - Geneva,
Switzerland
2010</span></font></b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Available
online PDF [334p.] at: <span><a href="http://bit.ly/9RPlNg" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy">http://bit.ly/9RPlNg</span></font></a></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">“…..,
is a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of gender-based
disparities and tracking their progress.<br>
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. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The
first part of this chapter reviews the underlying concepts employed in creating
the Global Gender Gap Index and outlines the methods used to calculate the
Index. The second part of this chapter presents the 2010 rankings, global
patterns and regional performance and calls attention to notable country cases.
Next, we provide an overview of the links between gender gaps and the economic
performance of countries. In the fourth part of this chapter, we have also
provided information on the trends revealed by the Index in the five years that
we have been producing it.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The Country Profiles contained in Part 2 of this <i><span style="font-style:italic">Report </span></i>give a more detailed picture of the
relative strengths and weaknesses of each country’s performance compared
with that of other nations. The first page of each profile contains detailed
information on over 30 gender-related variables, presenting both the original
data used to create the Index and other variables that reflect some of the
legal and social factors affecting gender disparity in each country.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold"><br>
Measuring the Global Gender Gap - </span></font></b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">There
are three basic concepts underlying the Global Gender Gap Index: <br>
First, it focuses on measuring gaps rather than levels. <br>
Second, it captures gaps in outcome variables rather than gaps in means or
input variables.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Third,
it ranks countries according to gender equality rather than women’s
empowerment. ………”<br>
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</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Preface<br>
PART 1: MEASURING THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The Global Gender Gap Index 2010</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Appendix A: Tracking the Gender Gap over Time</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Appendix B: Regional and Income Group Classifications, 2010</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Appendix C: The Spread of Minimum and Maximum Values by Indicator</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">PART 2: COUNTRY PROFILES 43</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">List of Countries </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">User’s Guide: How Country Profiles Work</span></font><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>
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