This paper discusses two recent controversies surrounding levels and trends in the number of missing women in the world …. First, the impact of fertility decline on gender bias in mortality is examined. Contrary to the expectations of some authors …, fertility decline has not generally led to an intensification of gender bias in mortality. Second, the paper finds that the …

In 2005 and 2006, the Human Development Report Office undertook a review of UNDP's gender-related indicators …, particularly the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). Background papers as well as the … the two gender-related indicators and by presenting illustrative results for these proposed measures. The most important …

This paper examines to what extent gender gaps in education, health, employment, productive assets and inputs can … problems with examining gender issues in the context of an income-based pro-poor growth framework, the paper considers theory … and evidence on the impact of gender inequality on pro poor growth. While there is a considerable literature suggesting …

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using most recent data and investigating a … to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment significantly reduce economic …

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) using variables of the OECD Gender …, Institutions and Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequalities in education, health, economic or political … participation, the SIGI allows a new perspective on gender issues. It is a composite measure of social institutions which are …

The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … relatively small, the gender gap in the probability of hospitalization and usage of scarce resources is very high. Ceteris … assets, help from friends, etc., is much higher than that of girls. Moreover, the results indicate that the gender gap …

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of … conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues to be considered are the space in which gender inequality in … overall measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is …