What is the difference between the 2010 Human Development Report’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) and other recently released Gender indices?
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index (GGI), released in October 2010, differs from the Human Development Report’s GII in many ways. First, the dimensions and indicators are different. Second, GGI measures gender gaps without taking into consideration a country’s level of development. In contrast, the GII shows the loss to potential achievement in a country due to gender inequality across reproductive health, empowerment and labour market participation. Another recent gender index -the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Women’s Economic Opportunity Index (WEOI), launched earlier this year –focuses on laws and regulations about women’s participation in the labour market and social institutions that affect women’s economic participation. It has five dimensions– labour policy and practice, women’s economic opportunity, access to finance, education and training, women’s legal and social status, and general business environment. Each category or sub-category has four to five indicat
