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1 March 2012: Side event organised during the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women on:

Empowering women through the transformation of discriminatory social institutions

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The Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in September 2010 was an opportunity to reflect on the progress achieved so far towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But it is equally important to examine what can be done within the next 5 years to help reach these goals, especially when looking at the relationship between gender inequality and the MDGs.

To find out more, read the new Issues Brief on

"Gender Inequality and the MDGs: What are the Missing Dimensions?"

and discover more related facts and videos on

Wikigender.

Gender equality is an essential human right and crucial for economic growth. Work of the OECD Development Centre highlights the important linkages between women's empowerment and long-term sustainable development. The Development Centre also proposes a set of innovative measures to quantify inequalities between men and women.

International Women's Day is marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women - and a good occasion for the Development Centre to present its work on gender equality. Learn more on what happened for the 2010 celebrations.

The 3 pillars of our gender work

The SIGI

www.genderindex.org

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a new composite measure of gender equality, based on the OECD Development Centre’s Gender, Institutions and Development Database. Launched in March 2009, it complements and improves existing measures in several ways. While conventional indicators of gender equality capture inequality outcomes, the SIGI focuses on the root casus behind these inequalities. Learn more.

Wikigender

Launched on 8 March 2008, www.wikigender.org reaches out to the public to foster a bottom-up dialogue on the importance of women's rights. It currently contains over 1, 200 articles maintained by more than 1, 200 users. Wikigender's sister site, www.wikiprogress.org, was launched in November 2009 to open the dialogue on the best measures to evaluate societal progress. Join the gender and progress communities to share and exchange information and best practices on gender equality and progress! More on Wikigender and Wikiprogress.

The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base

The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base is available since 2009. It represents a tool for researchers and policy makers to determine and analyse obstacles to women’s economic development. Its true innovation is the inclusion of institutional variables that range from intrahousehold behaviour to social norms. Learn more.

Publications

Issues Brief: Gender Inequality and the MDGs: What are the Missing Dimensions?

As world leaders meet in New York in September 2010 to review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there will be an opportunity to reorient and re-energise global efforts to meet these important targets. This Issues Brief provides some evidence on the need to address discrimination against women across all MDGs.

The "Atlas of Gender and Development: How Social Norms Affect Gender Equality in Non-OECD Countries" was launched during the International Workshop "Gender Equality and Progress of Societies" on 12 March 2010. This new resource combines country and regional analysis with rankings based on the Development Centre’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI).

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Events

Side event: Empowering women through the transformation of discriminatory social institutions, organised during the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women

For a list of past events, please click here.

For further information, please send an email to DEV.Gender@oecd.org. You can also contact Somali Cerise (tel: +33 1 45 24 96 14) or Estelle Loiseau (tel: +33 1 45 24 95 59).

Work on gender is managed by a small team of gender experts at the OECD Development Centre, Paris.

From left to right: Chris Garroway, Angela Hariche, Estelle Loiseau, Johannes Jütting, Nejma Bouchama, and Karen Barnes.

For more information on the Wikigender Team, click here.

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The work of the OECD Development Centre on gender is financed by member contributions and particularly benefits from support by Norway, Sweden and Finland.