Gender at the Development Centre

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 the occasion of International Women's Day, the OECD Development Centre launched a new website to share and exchange information on gender equality. Wikigender (www.wikigender.org) reaches out to the public to foster a bottom-up dialogue on the importance of women's rights. More on Wikigender

The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base represents a new 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.

www.genderindex.org

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 conventional indicators of gender equality capture inequality outcomes, the SIGI focuses on the root casus behind these inequalities. Learn more.

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

(back:  J.Jütting,  D.Drechsler,  E.Loiseau,  E.Prydz; front: A.Luci, K.Nowacka, M.Rebuffel-Amselek; Olivier Puech - not on picture)

For more information on the Wikigender Team, click here.

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