towards an alternative index on gender equality
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wieringa, Saskia
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- ZO AZ 1L 1999 - C
- Thesaurus
- gelijke behandeling, methoden van onderzoek, empowerment, Japan
- Description
- Paper presented at the First Global Forum on Human Development, sponsored by the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme, New York, 29-31 July 1999. The author discusses the Gender Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) and summarizes some points of critique on the way they are constructed. She presents the Gender Equality Index (GEI) and analyzes gender (in)equality in Japan.