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Countries by Gender Inequality Index (Data from 2019, published in 2020). Red denotes more gender inequality, and green more equality. [1]The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary edition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The unintended consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic pose a threat to the health of pregnant women. [34] We can expect the downstream effects of COVID-19 to be apparent for several years. [34] From the current evidence base, it is difficult to draw absolute conclusions on whether pregnant women are at increased risk of severe consequences of ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated inequalities through uneven effects across social domains. [11] Some of these impacts include disproportionate financial toll, crime, education, human rights, xenophobia and racism, disproportionate impacts by gender, and racial inequalities.
Global gender parity, which was rocked by labor disruptions and other aspects of the pandemic, is back to pre-Covid levels — but the gap isn’t expected to close entirely for 131 years ...
United Nations' Gender Inequality Index (part of the Human Development Report) shows that the US scored 19% in gender inequality in 2017 ranking in the 13th place out of 173 countries in terms of the Human Development Index. [177]
The 2022 Index has a thematic focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and care. [7] Based on EIGE's survey on the socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality with over 40 000 respondents across the EU, the focus explores the division of informal childcare, long-term care (LTC) and housework between women and men.
'The pandemic has exacerbated this trend' The health of a region’s economy is generally correlated with the size of its population, and the pandemic saw major population changes across the country.
The Gender-related Development Index (GDI) is a gender-focused development of the Human Development Index (HDI) which measures the development levels in a country corrected by the existing gender inequalities. [5] [6] It addresses gender-gaps in life expectancy, education, and incomes. It uses an "inequality aversion" penalty, which creates a ...