Gender Income Inequality By Country

In each women make about three fourths of what men make.

Gender income inequality by country. The gender inequality index gii is an index for measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 human development report 20th anniversary edition by the united nations development programme undp. It s a measure of inequality and captures a concept that is broader than the concept of equal pay for equal work. The gender wage gap is defined as the difference between male and female median wages divided by the male median wages. Organizations that track gender equality across a variety of outcomes related to health economics politics and education such as the united nations development program and the world economic forum find widespread inequality.

Find compare and share oecd data by indicator. For example women account for less than half of the labor force globally and few nations have ever had a female leader. The gender pay gap or the gender wage gap is a metric that tells us the difference in pay or wages or income between women and men. Gender institutions and development database gid db 2019.

By country inequality. According to the undp this index is a composite measure to quantify the loss of achievement within a country due to gender inequality it uses three dimensions to measure. This is a list of countries or dependencies by income inequality metrics including gini coefficients the gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1 where 0 corresponds with perfect equality where everyone has the same income and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality where one person has all the income and everyone else has no income. County level data illustrate the best cities.

Data have been revised for belgium and ireland income year 2017.