Gender-Related Indicators of Well-Being

Stephan Klasen

No DP2004-05, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and measurement problems.

Keywords: Discrimination in employment; Households; Income distribution; Poverty; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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