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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.

Just launched

10 May 2012: Launch of the 2012 Social Institutions and Gender Index in Washington.

More information on the launch event, co-hosted with the United States Department of State.

See the new www.genderindex.org website!

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The 3 pillars of our gender work

The SIGI

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

OECD Development Centre (February 2012), “Do discriminatory social institutions matter for food security?”, Issue Paper
OECD Development Centre (September 2010), “Gender Inequality and the MDGs: What are the Missing Dimensions?”, Issue Paper
OECD (2010), Atlas of Gender and Development: How Social Norms Affect Gender Equality in Non-OECD Countries, OECD Publishing. 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

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For further information, please send an email to DEV.Gender@oecd.org.

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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.