MEASURING GENDER INEQUALITY. GENDER SENSITIVE INDICATORS AND AGGREGATE INDEXES: WHAT STORY DO THEY TELL?
MEASURING GENDER INEQUALITY. GENDER SENSITIVE INDICATORS AND AGGREGATE INDEXES: WHAT STORY DO THEY TELL?

Author(s): Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: GENDER INEQUALITY
Summary/Abstract: Achieving gender equality is critical towards the greater human development and sustainable growth. Since both men’s and women’s welfare constitute human welfare, ensuring their equal access to opportunities, freedoms and assets is essential for enhancing the development. Globally, women experience lower employment rates and wages than men as well as lower political participation and thus the reduced power to speak up their rights. Due to the reproduction, women face higher difficulties associated with the conditions of their health. Prevailing social norms and institutional obstacles prevent women to effectively combine paid work and child care.

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