The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a cross-country measure of discrimination against women in social … life choices. As underlying drivers of gender inequalities, discriminatory social institutions perpetuate gender gaps in …

Since 2009, the OECD Development Centre has been publishing the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), a cross …-country measure of gender-based discrimination in social institutions (formal and informal laws, social norms and practices). This … SIGI 2019 methodology establishes a criterion for the computation of measures of gender-based discrimination –where zero …

The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African … countries. Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial … stable countries enjoy better levels of "financial access"-induced gender inclusion compared to respectively, low income …