Economy
How Economic Development Helps the World's Women
Understanding the connection between women's opportunity and the world's development patterns
In my previous post, I created a series of maps on the treatment and economic opportunity offered to women around the world. Today, I look at the connection between women's economic opportunity and economic development.
With the help of my Martin Prosperity Institute colleague Charlotta Mellander, we combined five leading measures (reflected in the maps I showed yesterday) into a single meta-index we call the Global Women’s Index or GWI, which covers 98 nations. These include two metrics by the United Nations, the Gender Inequality Index and the Gender Empowerment Index, the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Women’s Opportunity Index and the Gender Equity Index by Social Watch.