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Gender-related indicators of well-being

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues considered are the space in which gender inequality in well-being is to be measured, whether the indicators should track wellbeing of males and females separately or adjust overall measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is necessarily the goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of agency or empowerment should play in genderrelated indicators of well-being. Among the most important measurement issues addressed are; the role of the household in allocating resources, the question of stocks versus flows, as well as significant data gaps when it comes to gender inequalities. Where appropriate, remedies to the conceptual and measurement issues are proposed. The paper also briefly reviews UNDP’s gender-related indices to illustrate some of the challenges involved.

ISBN: 9291906050

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2004/05

Classification: Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

Subject: well-being
inequality
poverty
missing women
GDI
Einkommensverteilung
Armut
Geschlecht
Sozialer Indikator
Welt

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Klasen, Stephan

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

(where): Helsinki

(when): 2004

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53027

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Klasen, Stephan
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

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2004

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