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. 2020 Jul 17;4(1):28–57. doi: 10.1057/s42214-020-00054-w

Table 2.

GII and GGGI targets and indicators

GII targets and indicators GGGI targets and indicators

Economic opportunity

• Labor force participation for women age 15 and older (ILO)

• Labor force participation for men age 15 and older (ILO)

Economic participation and opportunity

• Labor force participation: female/male (ILO, ILOSTATAT)

Wage equality between women and men for similar work (WEF-Executive Opinion Survey)

Estimated earned income: female/male (WEF-UNDP methodology)

Legislators, senior official and managers: female/male (ILOSTAT)

Professional and technical workers: female/male (ILOSTAT)

Reproductive health

Number of women who died from pregnancy-related causes for every 100,000 live births (UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Group)

Birth per 1000 women ages 15–19 (UNDESA)

Health and survival

Sex ratio at birth: female/male (UN Population Division, World Population Prospects)

Healthy life expectancy: female/male (WHO, Global Health Observatory)

Empowerment

• Percentage of parliamentary seats held by women (IPU)

• Percentage of women age 25 and older with at least some secondary education (UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Barro & Lee, 2016)

• Percentage of men age 25 and older with at least some secondary education

Political empowerment

• Seats in parliament: female/male (Inter-Parliamentary Union, Women in Politics)

Positions at ministerial level: female/male (IPU, Women in Politics)

Number of years with a female head of state (last 50 years): female/male (WEF calculations)

Educational Attainment (UNESCO Institute for Statistics Education Indicators)

Literary rate: female/male

Net primary enrolment: female/male

• Net secondary enrolment: female/male

Gross tertiary enrolment: female/male

Data sources in parentheses. Bold text shows that indicators are included in that index but missing from the other index.

ILO International Labor Organization; WEF World Economic Forum; UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; UN United Nations; WHO World Health Organization; UNDESA United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs; IPU Inter-Parliamentary Union.