International Expert Workshop Measuring Gender Equality: Taking Stock and Looking Forward

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International Expert Workshop Measuring Gender
Equality Taking Stock and Looking Forward
Johannes JüttingOECD Development Centre
? Paris, 24th 25th May 2007?
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Background

• Growing interest in gender equality and gender
  
• statistics
• Gender equality an intrinsic goal
• e.g. Millennium Development Goals
• ...but also instrumental in obtaining other
  objectives
• e.g. debate on gender equality and economic
  growth womenomics
• But how to measure gender equality how to
  improve gender statistics?
• Various research projects, expert meetings, e.g.
  UN Inter-Agency and Expert Meeting on Gender
  Statistics

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Background

• OECD Gender, Institutions and Development
• Data-Base launch 2006
• Conventional data on gender equality
• Demographic, economic, political, educational,
  health and composite indicators.
• New data
• Social institutions family code, physical
  integrity, ownership rights, civil liberties.

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Objectives

• Taking stock of existing approaches to measure
  gender equality focus on indicators
• Assessing their respective strengths and
  weaknesses
• Discussing ways of improving the data collection
  and quality focus on social institutions
• Start to develop a road map for further activities

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Key questions

• How do social institutions affect gender
  equality? How can they be measured? How to ensure
  an appropriate approach for OECD and non-OECD
  countries?
• What are the uses and abuses of composite
  indicators? Are country rankings based on
  composite indicators useful?
• How can we improve the data collection and
  quality in particular related to social
  institutions?
• What are the next steps and who takes the lead
  for what activity?

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Structure of the workshop

• Four sessions with lead questions
• Workshop rapporteurs for conclusions
• Sharing of workshop summary and follow-up
• All presentations and background papers at
  www.oecd.org/dev/institutions/GIDdatabase