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The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)  is a new composite measure of gender equality, based on the OECD’s Gender, Institutions and Development Database. It complements and improves existing measures in several ways. While existing indicators of gender equality – for example the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) or the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) – capture inequality outcomes, the SIGI focuses on the root casus behind these inequalities.
The SIGI shows that many of the world’s worst performers are situated in the belt that stretches from Mali to Pakistan. In most parts of sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa region, women face high discrimination in social institutions. In last place of the SIGI ranking we find Sudan, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone.