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> GEI
values in 2008
> Evolution
of the GEI 2008
> Recent
evolution of the GEI components
> SW
Gender Equity Index 2008
> Education
Gap
> Economic
Activity Gap
> Empowerment
Gap
> The
stairway to gender equity
> Money
and equity do not go hand in hand
> The
Best
> The
Worst
> TECHNICAL
NOTES
> GEI
by region
> CZECH VERSION OF THE GENDER EQUITY INDEX 2008
> ITALIAN VERSION OF THE GENDER EQUITY INDEX 2008
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GEI2008_eng.pdf
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More than half the women in the world live in countries that
have made no progress in gender equity in recent years. This is the main
conclusion of the Social Watch 2008 Gender Equity Index (GEI)
which, for the first time, shows recent evolution and trends in bridging
the gap between men and women in education,
the economy and empowerment.
The GEI 2008 illustrates that the greater equity levels to be
found in education are not paralleled by acceptable levels in the economic
field nor in the empowerment of women. Political empowerment is the area
where most progress has been made in recent years as a result of active
policies, yet economic equity shows disparate results, with as many
countries regressing as those where there is progress. In education equity
is comparatively closer, but the
trend for many countries is to regress.
Difficulties in reaching equity cannot
be justified by a lack of resources: the GEI mapping and that of each of
its components show that – regardless of income levels – each
country can reduce gender disparity through adequate policies.
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The GEI has been computed for 42 countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa, 37 in Europe, 28 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 17 in the
Middle East and North Africa, 18 in East Asia and the Pacific, 7 in Central
Asia, 6 in South Asia and 2 in North
America. Together these
countries represent more than 94% of the world's population.
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