{"id":1278,"date":"2008-10-20T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/2008\/10\/gender-equity-index-gei-2008\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:25:50","slug":"gender-equity-index-gei-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/2008\/10\/gender-equity-index-gei-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Equity Index (GEI) 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Table of contents<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9269\">GEI values in 2008<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9270\">Evolution of the GEI 2008<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9271\">Recent evolution of the GEI components<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9272\">SW Gender Equity Index 2008<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9273\">Education Gap<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9274\">Economic Activity Gap<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9275\">Empowerment Gap<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9276\">The stairway to gender equity<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9277\">Money and equity do not go hand in hand<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9278\">The Best<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9279\">The Worst<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9280\">TECHNICAL NOTES<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9281\">GEI by region<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9282\">Czech Republic: CZECH VERSION OF THE GENDER EQUITY INDEX 2008 (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9283\">Italy: ITALIAN VERSION OF THE GENDER EQUITY INDEX 2008 (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9268\">GENDER EQUITY INDEX 2008 - FLASH VERSION<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/IEG_2008_eng\/images\/tit_avancesyretro.gif\" alt=\"\"><br>More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress in gender equity in recent years. This is the main conclusion of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9272\">Social Watch 2008 Gender Equity Index (GEI)<\/a>&nbsp;which, for the first time, shows recent evolution and trends in bridging the gap between men and women in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9273\">education<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9274\">economy<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9275\">empowerment<\/a>.The GEI 2008 illustrates that the greater equity levels to be found in education are not paralleled by acceptable levels in the economic field nor in the empowerment of women. Political empowerment is the area where most progress has been made in recent years as a result of active policies, yet economic equity shows disparate results, with as many countries regressing as those where there is progress. In education equity is comparatively closer, but the<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9270\">&nbsp;trend for many countries<\/a>&nbsp;is to regress.<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9276\">Difficulties in reaching equity<\/a>&nbsp;cannot be justified by a lack of resources: the GEI mapping and that of each of its components show that \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9277\">regardless of income levels<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 each country can reduce gender disparity through adequate policies.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9272\">More GEI 2008<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9269\">Gender Equity Index 2008<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9270\">Recent GEI trends<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/IEG_2008_eng\/images\/img_map_violeta_p.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"175\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The GEI has been computed for 42 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, 37 in Europe, 28 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 17 in the Middle East and North Africa, 18 in East Asia and the Pacific, 7 in Central Asia, 6 in South Asia and 2 in North America. Together these countries represent more than 94% of the world's population.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/9269\">More<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/IEG_2008_eng\/Education_gap_basic_data.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Education gap_basic data (.rtf)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www2024.socialwatch.org\/node\/docs\/Economic_Activity_gap_basic_data.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Economic Activity gap_ basic data (.rtf)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/IEG_2008_eng\/Empowerment_gap_basic_data.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Empowerment gap_ basic data (.rtf)<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>FOR THE PRESS<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/IEG_2008_eng\/GEI08_pressRelease.doc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download press release<\/a>Contacts\/Spokespeople:Roberto Bissio&nbsp;<\/strong><br>Social Watch Coordinator<br>Phone: +33 621983661<br>E-mail:<a href=\"mailto:item@item.org.uy\">&nbsp;item@item.org.uy<\/a><strong>Emily Joy Sikazwe<\/strong><br>Social Watch Coordinating Committee Member&nbsp;<br>Phone: +2601 224309 (Lusaka, Zambia)<br>E-mail:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:emily_sikazwe@yahoo.com\">emily_sikazwe@yahoo.com<\/a><strong>Genoveva Tisheva<\/strong><br>Social Watch Coordinating Committee Member&nbsp;<br>Phone: +3592 9635357 (Sof\u00eda, Bulgaria)<br>E-mail:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gtisheva@yahoo.com\">gtisheva@yahoo.com<\/a><br><br><strong>Related Documents<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/GEI2008_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GEI2008_eng.pdf<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/GEI08exterior_eng.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GEI08exterior_eng.gif<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/GEI08interior_eng.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GEI08interior_eng.gif<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of contents More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress in gender equity in recent years. This is the main conclusion of the&nbsp;Social Watch 2008 Gender Equity Index (GEI)&nbsp;which, for the first time, shows recent evolution and trends in bridging the gap between men and women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gei-2008","category-gender-equity-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}