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- Title
The Measurement of Socio-economic Gender Inequality Revisited.
- Authors
Beneria, Lourdes; Permanyer, Iñaki
- Abstract
The measurement of socio-economic gender inequality has not received much attention from the development literature despite its great relevance and important policy implications. In this article we present two new indices to measure gender inequalities that overcome some of the limitations inherent in the UNDP gender-related indices and other indices presented in the literature. The proposed new indices are conducive to exploring the extent to which gender gaps favour women and/or men, and to showing the contribution of the different subcomponents to the overall levels of gender inequality. Using UNDP data, our calculations suggest that the levels of gender inequality are mostly explained by differences in the earned-income subcomponent and that the average difference between women's and men's achievement levels has been reduced by 12 per cent during the period 1995–2005.
- Subjects
GENDER inequality; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S employment; EMPLOYMENT of men; SEX discrimination; POWER (Social sciences); WAGES -- Social aspects; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Development & Change, 2010, Vol 41, Issue 3, p375
- ISSN
0012-155X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01648.x