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Online Discussion from 27 January
until 14 February 2014!
Wikigender online discussion
Data Gaps on Gender Equality
Wikigender, the UN
Foundation, Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children
(HBSC), the EU-LAC
Foundation, European Institute for Gender Equality
(EIGE), ECLAC and PARIS21 would like to hear your
views on where are the data gaps and engage in a discussion on pioneering
initiatives that generate new data and new methodological approaches to
address complex areas (e.g. unpaid care, time use, social norms).
The
outcomes of the discussion and main findings will be synthesised in a
final report and presented/distributed at a side event organised by the OECD
Development Centre, Overseas
Development Institute (ODI) and the UK Department for International Development
(DFID) in March 2014, during the 58th session on UN the Commission on the Status of
Women in New York.
Participate from 9am (GMT+1) on
27/01 until 5pm on 14/02!
Background
The
objective of this online discussion is to focus on data gaps on gender
equality, which can contribute to the 58th Commission for the Status of Women’s
(CSW) review of the MDGs.
Given the growing advocacy momentum for a stand-alone gender equality
goal and targets in the post-2015 agenda, it is important to stocktake
progress made since 2000 on improving the quality, coverage and
approaches to data, which can assist in the elaboration of priorities for
the statistical infrastructure for gender equality moving forward.
Initiatives spearheaded at the international level (e.g. the UN Women/UNSD
52 minimum set of indicators, EDGE initiative, Data
2X), regional organisations (e.g. ECLAC, EU-LAC,
EIGE), and national statistical
offices point to the importance of coordinated action and
knowledge-sharing for advancing the gender agenda at all levels:
sub-national, national and international.
The
Wikigender online discussion will look at where are the data gaps, map
pioneering initiatives that generate new data (including use of big
data), share knowledge on new methodological approaches to address
complex areas (e.g. unpaid care, time use, social norms), progress on
gender statistics since 2000, as well as national capacities to collect
data. It aims to bring together leading institutes working on gender
statistics to share and discuss their initiatives, results and proposals
for improving gender statistics amongst a technical community of
practice.
Guiding Questions
Over
three weeks (27 Jan - 14 Feb), the discussion will be organised around
three themes, 1 theme per week (preguntas en español aquí;
questions en francais ici).
Week 1 starting 27 January: The socio-economic empowerment of
women
Data
on the socio-economic empowerment of women has increasingly improved over
the years, with a plethora of indices such as UNDP’s Gender Inequality
Index, Social Watch’s Gender Equity Index, the Women’s Economic
Opportunity Index, the Global Gender Gap index, EIGE’s Gender Equality
Index, among others. However, there are still many data gaps and quality,
coverage and availability need to be improved. The recent Evidence and
Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) is among the new initiatives that aim to
accelerate existing efforts to generate comparable gender indicators on
health, education, employment and develop standards to measure
entrepreneurship and assets from a gender perspective. This week, we
would like to hear from you on:
Where
has progress been made since 2000 in terms of data on women’s
socio-economic empowerment and where are the gaps? How can we address
them?
- Data collection: Do you have examples of
local, regional or international initiatives that aim to improve
data collection and analysis on women’s socio-economic empowerment?
How are they effective? What are priority areas for which data on
women should be improved or newly produced, and which institutions
are poised to take this on?
- Comparability and methodology:
What needs to be done to make existing data comparable between
different regions? How feasible would this be? How do we best engage
national statistical offices in improving data on women and girls in
line with international efforts? How is it possible to drive
initiatives to ensure that there is better harmonization of data?
- New areas of research:
How can data collection on new areas of research (such as time use,
unpaid care or social norms) be improved in order to better inform
how women fare in terms of socio-economic empowerment and to inform
policy-making?
- New priority areas:
What new priority targets/areas should be included in the post-2015
development agenda and more specifically when it comes to gender
equality?
Coming up!
- Week 2 starting 3 February:
Violence against women
- Week 3 starting 10 February:
The civic and political participation of women
Cross-cutting themes during the online discussion will include: new areas
of research (e.g. social norms, time use, unpaid care), the “data
revolution” and gender statistics; lessons learnt since 2000; and
proposals for targets for the post-2015 development agenda. The online
discussion will be in English, Spanish and French (the outcome document
will be produced in English only).
See past Wikigender online
discussions.
Key Resources
Wikigender articles (a
selection)
Contribute!
We look forward to your
participation! We strongly encourage you to disseminate news about the
online discussion via your networks and on Twitter using #gender and #datagaps and
the following link to this page: http://bit.ly/1dnPEkI
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