Are UNDP Indices Appropriate to Capture Gender Inequalities in Europe?

Autor/in	Permanyer, Inaki
Titel	Are UNDP Indices Appropriate to Capture Gender Inequalities in Europe?
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 110 (2013) 3, S.927-950 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-011-9975-6
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Economic Progress; Females; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; International Organizations; Developed Nations; Regional Characteristics; Disproportionate Representation; Disadvantaged; Physical Health; Employment; Social Indicators; Measurement; Sociometric Techniques; Evaluation Methods; Research Problems; Evaluation Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Economic growth; Wirtschaftswachstum; Weibliches Geschlecht; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Geschlechterkonflikt; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Regionaler Faktor; Gesundheitszustand; Dienstverhältnis; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Messverfahren; Soziometrie; Forschungskritik
Abstract	This study critically investigates the suitability of United Nations' composite indices and other related measures--among which the Gender Inequality Index just released in 2010--to capture gender inequalities in the context of "highly developed" countries, focusing on the case of Europe. Our results indicate that many of the gender gaps in health and education variables have either vanished or even reversed, thus questioning their appropriateness to capture women's disadvantage in Europe and inviting to construct region-specific measures. Alternatively, parliamentary representation and labor force participation are variables with large gender gaps that highlight important dimensions where women disadvantage prevails. Different cross-section and cross-time associations between economic growth and gender equality are generally not statistically significant--or at most weakly correlated--at European level. This is basically due to the fact that the gender gaps included in UNDP gender-related indices reached their normatively desirable values long ago, therefore leaving no room for further improvement. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10