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The disadvantages facing women and
girls are a major source of inequality. All too often, women and girls are
discriminated against in health, education and the labour market — with
negative repercussions for their freedoms. We introduce a new measure of these
inequalities built on the same framework as the HDI and the IHDI — to
better expose differences in the distribution of achievements between women and
men.
Gender inequality varies
tremendously across countries—the losses in achievement due to gender
inequality (not directly comparable to total inequality losses because
different variables are used) range from 17 percent to 85 percent.
Countries with unequal
distribution of human development also experience high inequality between women
and men, and countries with high gender inequality also experience unequal
distribution of human development.
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