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oapen-20.500.12657-883152024-03-28T14:02:53Z Measuring Gender Equality di Bella, Enrico Fachelli, Sandra López-Roldán, Pedro Suter, Christian Gender Equality Gender Gap Indicators Measurement Policy Making European Union Complexity Regional Studies Gender Responsive Fiscal Policies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research and statistics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education In this open access book, the editors explicitly address the issue of measuring gender equality. The book introduces readers to basic concepts of gender equality, equity and equal opportunities, then discusses measuring these phenomena, the methods of constructing indicators, and reviews the main indicators that have been proposed at the international level to measure gender equality. It then sets the theoretical discussions against the findings from a Jean Monnet project financed by the European Union to highlight the importance of a regional analysis of gender equality in four main study areas: Italy, Spain, France and Germany. The results make it clear that it is necessary to move from the purely national perspective hitherto used in gender equality analyses to a regional one because differences can be highly pronounced even within the same country. This is a self-contained volume requiring limited statistical expertise for the reader and is aimed at social researchers and policymakers who wish to address gender equality from a quantitative perspective. 2024-03-13T11:10:13Z 2024-03-13T11:10:13Z 2023 book ONIX_20240313_9783031414862_20 9783031414862 9783031414855 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88315 eng Social Indicators Research Series application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-41486-2.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-41486-2 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-41486-2 10.1007/978-3-031-41486-2 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 5fc69a25-56dc-45bb-9d2e-ece1add05d88 9783031414862 9783031414855 Springer International Publishing 87 205 Cham [...] open access
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In this open access book, the editors explicitly address the issue of measuring gender equality. The book introduces readers to basic concepts of gender equality, equity and equal opportunities, then discusses measuring these phenomena, the methods of constructing indicators, and reviews the main indicators that have been proposed at the international level to measure gender equality. It then sets the theoretical discussions against the findings from a Jean Monnet project financed by the European Union to highlight the importance of a regional analysis of gender equality in four main study areas: Italy, Spain, France and Germany. The results make it clear that it is necessary to move from the purely national perspective hitherto used in gender equality analyses to a regional one because differences can be highly pronounced even within the same country. This is a self-contained volume requiring limited statistical expertise for the reader and is aimed at social researchers and policymakers who wish to address gender equality from a quantitative perspective.
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