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 …

In contrast to UNDP’s wildly successful Human Development Index (HDI), UNDP’s gender-related indices have had a rather … comparable index that can be used to compare countries across the world with regard to the extent of gender inequalities in human … development-related dimensions. As a result, this void left by HDRO has been filled by many other indices of gender …

Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing …

This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …

This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …

This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of … humanities. This gender disparity is not driven by gender specific differences in mathematical ability, as the gap remains large …

, household-based poverty measures ignore the intra-household inequalities and are gender-insensitive. Gender equality, however …, is at the center of the sustainable development, as it has been emphasized by the Goal 5 of the SDGs: “Achieve gender … poverty and gender inequality by proposing an individual-based multidimensional poverty measure for Nicaragua and estimate the …

-household inequalities. Besides, by definition, households containing both a female and a male cannot contribute to a gender gap, so gender … differentials cannot be estimated. But, the Sustainable Development Goals have put special emphasis on gender equality along their … targets; therefore, new measures able to capture the gender differences are needed. Consequently, in this paper, we propose an …

Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing …