Sentence examples for gender index from inspiring English sources
Results from the OECD Development Centre's Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), for example, highlight how a discriminatory social practice such as early marriage adversely affects girls' educational attainments, or how an unequal share of unpaid care work between women and men can exacerbate gender wage gaps.
This early recognition has been backed by data from the OECD's Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) that provides evidence of how discrimination in laws, attitudes and practices reduces women's ability to take advantage of empowerment opportunities and break cycles of poverty.
In 2014, it was reported in the Social Institutions and Gender Index, published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's development centre, that the notion of women being subservient to men in Nepal was so rooted in society that "neither the violence nor the failure to complain about it is unusual".
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development maintains a Social Institutions and Gender Index.
Canada fell to 20th place in the United Nations Development Program's gender index in 2013 after ranking first from 1997 to 2001.
The Social Institutions Gender Index (SIGI) which compares factors such as preferential treatment of sons over daughters, violence against women, and restrictions on property rights ranks India as 56th out of 86 countries for gender equality, lower than other emerging markets like Brazil, China, Indonesia and South Africa.
Other Indexes include the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Gender Gap Index (GGI) and the Gender Inequality Index (GII).
A key aspect of this model is that it considers three UN well-being variables simultaneously: Human Development Index, Gender Empowerment Index and Gender Differentiation Index.
The completion rate of girls for primary education is 51 per cent and the gender parity index for this indicator is at 0.76.
In the World Economic Forum's 2013 global gender gap index, it ranked 105th out of 136 countries.
