(2015). Association between gender inequality index and child mortality rates: A cross-national study of 138 countries. BMC Public Health, 15(97): 1-6.Brinda E, Rajkumar A, Enemark U. Association between gender
Around the world, data is showing that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the lives and welfare of women and girls. The Index shows that the COVID-19 pandemic intensified gender inequality, flagging issues like access to sexual and reproductive health services, women’s loss ...
The map below shows gender inequality, using a composite gender inequality index based on the state rankings for three variables: difference in literacy rates between male and females, differences in rates of economic participation and the percentage of municipal leaders who are female. (Data sources...
Gender Inequality Index Active cases per million population <0.25 53 34.2% <100 115 54.8% 0.25–0.50 63 40.6% 100–500 57 27.1% >0.50–0.75 39 25.2% >500 38 18.1% Human Development Index Critical cases per million population <0.50 20 11.6% <20 101 77.7% 0.50–0.75 67 39.0% 20–50...
Gender inequalities are reflected in differential vulnerability, and exposure to the hazards posed by climate change and addressing them is key to increase the adaptive capacities of societies. We provide trajectories of the Gender Inequality Index (GII)
The data for the Gender Inequality Index and Human Development Index were obtained on the UNDP website (hdr.undp.org). All data refer to the year of . For reference, data for each country studied in this work are presented in Table . To perform the comparison considered...
Gender parity index for youth literacy rate is the ratio of females to males aged 15 to 24 who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life. In 2023, the global youth literacy rate as gender parity index amounted to 0.98. On average, males...
We used Gender Inequality Index (GII), which measures gender inequality in several contexts (e.g., inequalities in reproduction health or force participation and labor market rate of men and women over 15 years). The data on GII was obtained from United Nations Development Programme76. ...
This adverse trend affecting the sex ratio at birth is not picked up by tools such as the Gender Inequality Index, which continues to show favourable changes in social norms towards women in many son-preference countries (UNDP, 2015). Paradoxically, the influence of the ancient tradition of ...
The GII is the first major index to include reproductive health indicators as a way to measure gender inequality. The GII uses two indicators to measure gender gaps in reproductive health. The first indicator is the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), calculated as the number of maternal deaths per...