Rationale for the gender equality index for Europe

This is a summary of the conceptual and methodological issues of the ‘Study for the development of the basic structure of a Gender Equality Index for the European Union’, produced by Janneke Plantenga, Colette Fagan, Friederike Maier and Chantal Remery (2010), commissioned by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).

The theoretical and empirical findings of the study will be used for further work by EIGE in the course of the development of the Gender Equality Index for Europe.

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http://eige.europa.eu/content/activities/gender-equality-index http://eige.europa.eu/content/activities/gender-equality-index

Link to this title through its DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2839/50180

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