1. Measuring Gender Equality
GID-DB
The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base

2. Let the GID-DB be your one-stop-shop on gender-disaggregated data

3. Did you know? Out of 193 heads of states worldwide, only 23 are women.
Chile: M. Bachelet
Germany: A. Merkel
Finland: T. Halonen
Liberia: E. Johnson Sirleaf

4. Gender equality has many dimensions…
…and also involves social institutions
Social Institutions
Health and Wellbeing
Educational Attainment
Here you see the traditional building blocks of gender equality.
Studies and respective data collections mostly look at:
the POLITICAL EMPOWREMENT OF WOMEN: e.g. the low rate of female heads of state that we saw earlier on
women’s ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION: e.g. the restricted access of women to formal labour markets – in the Middle East region and South Asia, for example, less than 20% of all paid employment is held by women
women’s HEALTH AND WELLBEING: looking at inequalities in the access to health and medical care: while women on average live 6 years longer than their male counterparts, this difference is only 2 years in Sub-Saharan Africa
women’s EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT: measuring the relative achievements of girls as compared to boys in schooling: the female/male literacy rate in South Asia, for example, is only 0.58 (equality would be 1)
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We complete the picture by also considering social institutions that have an important impact on gender equality.
Political Empowerment
Economic Participation

5. Our Mission:
Provide a comprehensive data collection covering all dimensions of gender equality
161 countries: all regions, all income groups
Over 60 indicators: education, health, employment, political empowerment and more...
Measures of intra-household behaviour and social norms

6. 12 Innovative New Indicators
Social Institutions Variables
Family Code
Physical Integrity
Civil Liberties
Ownership Rights
Early marriage
Polygamy
Parental authority
Inheritance
Female genital mutilation
Violence against women
Missing women
Freedom of movement
Obligation to wear a veil in public
Access to land
Access to bank loans
Access to property

7. Gender inequality in social institutions
Elevated discrimination in social institutions
Moderate discrimination in social institutions
High discrimination in social institutions
Low discrimination in social institutions
Country not included

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