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GENDER EQUITY INDEX 2009 - SOCIAL
WATCH
Social Watch is an international network of citizens’ organizations in the struggle
to eradicate poverty and the causes of poverty, to end all forms of
discrimination and racism, to ensure an equitable distribution of wealth and
the realization of human rights. We are committed to peace, social, economic,
environment and gender justice, and we emphasize the right of all people not to
be poor.
Gender
Equity Index 2009
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The Gender Equity Index 2009 computed by Social Watch shows
that the gender gap is not narrowing in most countries and a majority of
the countries that show progress are those that were already comparatively
better. The distance between the countries and regions in the better and
worse relative situations has widened in the last years. In education and
economic activity the situation of women has globally improved, but when it
comes to empowerment some 15% of countries have regressed over the past
year, and this has been so severe that the average global value of this
indicator fell from 35% in 2008 to 34.5% in 2009.
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No progress there
where it is needed the most
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Measuring inequity:
the 2009 Gender Equity Index
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GEI regional average by component
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THE THREE GAPS
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