OECD Development Centre

Innovative Approaches

to Gender Equality

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OECD Development Centre

Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

Two Main Pillars of our Gender Work

A comprehensive database on gender and social norms

The first “wiki” on gender equality

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Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development (GID) Database

• 12 innovative indicators• 160 countries: all regions / all income categories

Social Institutions Variables

• Early marriage

• Polygamy

• Parental authority

• Inheritance

• Freedom ofmovement

• Freedom of dress

• Female genital

mutilation

• Violence against women

• Access to land

• Access to bankloans

• Access toproperty

Ownership RightsCivil LibertiesPhysical IntegrityFamily Code

• Missing women

Son Preference

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Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

The GID online

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Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

Easy data access and visualisation

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Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

www.wikigender.org

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Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

With a specific country focus…

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Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

…reaching out to the global community

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Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

New ways of visualising data…

ZWE

ZMB

YEM

VNM

VEN

URYUSAGBR

UAE

UKR

UGA

TUR

TUN

TGO

THA

TZA

SYR

CHE

SWE

SDN

LKAESP ZAF

SVK

SEN

SAU

RUS

ROUPRTPOL

PHL

PER

PRYPAN

PAK

OMN

NOR

NGA

NER

NIC

NZL

NLD

NPL

NAM

MMR

MOZ

MAR

MEXMUSMRT

MLTMLI

MYS

MWI

MDG

LUX

LBY

LBNKWT

KORKEN

JOR

JPNITA

ISRIRL

IRN

IDN

IND

ISL

HUN

HND

HTI

GNB

GRC

GHA

DEUFRA

FIN

FJI

ETH

EST

ERI

GNQ

SLV

EGY

ECU

DOM

DNKCZE

CUB

CIV

CRI

COL

CHNCHL

TCD

CAF

CAN

CMR

BFA

BGR

BRA BWA

BOL

BENBEL

BGD

BHR

AUT

AUSARMARG

AGO

DZA

ALB

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Fitted values WWORKING (non-agri %)

From static and boring… …to dynamic and animated

Conventional Scatterplot Google MotionChart

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Innovative Approaches to Gender Equality

On 18 December 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It entered into force as an international treaty on 3 September 1981 after the twentieth country had ratified it. By the tenth anniversary of the Convention in 1989, almost one hundred nations have agreed to be bound by its provisions. The Convention was the culmination of more than thirty years of work by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, a body established in 1946 to monitor the situation of women and to promote women's rights. The Commission's work has been instrumental in bringing to light all the areas in which women are denied equality with men. These efforts for the advancement of women have resulted in several declarations and conventions, of which the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is the central and most comprehensive document. Among the international human rights treaties, the Convention takes an important place in bringing the female half of humanity into the focus of human rights concerns.…

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

…and textual information

From long and convoluted… …to short and to the point

Conventional articles and texts A ManyEyes “wordle”

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For more informationwww.oecd.org/dev/

gender