A Narrower Perspective? From a Global to a Developed-Countries Gender Gap Index: a Gender Statistics Excercise

In this paper, we focus our attention on a particular composite index of gender equality, the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI), highlighting problematics and weaknesses and proposing a different approach structured in four steps. The starting point of our analysis is to narrow the research to a small...

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Main Authors: Silvia Caligaris, Fulvia Mecatti, Franca Crippa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2014-01-01
Series:Statistica
Online Access:http://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/article/view/4138