Measuring Brazilian Inequality Using the Gender Inequality Index

Towards an Optimal Synthetic Index for Measuring Gender Inequality

Gender equality is a key aspect of human rights in order to achieve sustainability and development focused on people. Bearing in mind how important equality has become in decision making, indicators including the gender approach are useful for quantifying the differences between the two genders and how they have evolved over time. Taking gender into account brings a diverse and complex reality ...

Measuring Inequality

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The Affect of Gender Inequality on Women Social Participation

This research was conducted to study the effect of gender inequality on social participation of women. The method used in this research was Ex-Post Facto and survey method. The statistical population included female students in different fields of faculty of humanities and faculty of training sciences and psychology (Islamic Azad University) Garmsar Branch in 2012-2013. Research instruments inc...

The Geography of Gender Inequality.

Reducing gender inequality is a major policy concern worldwide, and one of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, our understanding of the magnitude and spatial distribution of gender inequality results either from limited-scale case studies or from national-level statistics. Here, we produce the first high resolution map of gender inequality by analyzing over 689,000 households in 47 coun...

Poverty and Gender Inequality