The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participations in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.
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... females which would provide a more straightforward picture of gender inequality (first suggested by Halis Akder in 1994) ... Another suggestion is to create a Gender-Gap Measure ... In 2003 Charmes and Wieringa came up with the Women's Empowerment Matrix which considers six spheres (physical, socio-cultural, religious, political ...
... The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is considerably more specialized than the GDI ... The GEM focuses particularly on the relative empowerment of women in a given country ... The empowerment of women is measured by evaluating women’s employment in high-ranking economic positions, seats in parliament, and share of household income ...
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