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Gender Equality and Empowerment: A Statistical Profile of the ESCAP region
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| Author(s):
Statistics Division (STAT)
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| Economic Sector(s):
(1) Other statistics |
| UNESCAP Reference
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| Division:
Statistics |
| Published Date:
February 2005 |
| Country:
{Non-country Specific Publication} |
| Hard Copy Price:
Online Copy Only
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| The current gender situation in the Asia-Pacific region is described through a small set of statistical indicators. Insight into individual indicators across the region can be obtained from the dataset in the comparative tables in Annex 1. The publication was prepared to assist the regional appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Beijing+10 global review on the occasion of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, forty-ninth session, New York, March 2005. |
- Introduction
- Challenges in developing gender indicators
- Discussion and analysis of the selected indicators
- Education of all and equality in education
- Health for all and health inequalities
- Equal opportunity to work and earn income
- Empowerment at all levels in needed
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Annex 1: Comparative tables of indicators
- Annex 2: Definitions and concepts
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