The Measurement of Socio-economic Gender Inequality Revisited

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The Measurement of Socio-economic Gender Inequality Revisited

Beneria, Lourdes - Personal Name; Permanyer, Iñaki - Personal Name;

The measurement of socio-economic gender inequality has not received much attention from the development literature despite its great relevance and important policy implications. In this article we present two new indices to measure gender inequalities that overcome some of the limitations inherent in the UNDP gender-related indices and other indices presented in the literature. The proposed new indices are conducive to exploring the extent to which gender gaps favour women and/or men, and to showing the contribution of the different subcomponents to the overall levels of gender inequality. Using UNDP data, our calculations suggest that the levels of gender inequality are mostly explained by differences in the earned-income subcomponent and that the average difference between women's and men's achievement levels has been reduced by 12 per cent during the period 1995–2005.

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Series Title: Development and Change
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Publisher: Hoboken, United States : Wiley-Blackwell., 2010
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 0012155x
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Edition: Volume 41 Issue 3, May 2010. Pages 375 - 399
Subject(s): Gender
gender inequality
Gender gaps
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