2008/03/04

Social Watch launches Gender Equity Index

Craig Zelizer
Peace and Collaborative Development Network

More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress towards gender equity in recent years. That is one of the findings of the Gender Equity Index (GEI) 2008 that Social Watch launched as a contribution to the 52nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women that will end next March 8, the International Women’s Day.

Social Watch launches Gender Equity Index

As a contribution to the 52nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

Complete information available at: www.socialwatch.org/en/avancesyRetrocesos/IEG_2008/index.htm

NEW YORK (Feb 28) – More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress towards gender equity in recent years. That is one of the findings of the Gender Equity Index (GEI) 2008 that Social Watch launched as a contribution to the 52nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women that will end next March 8, the International Women’s Day.

The GEI, developed and calculated by Social Watch, ranks 157 countries in a scale where 100 would imply complete equality between women and men in education, participation in the economy and in decision-making bodies (empowerment).

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