{"id":4192,"date":"2020-03-16T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T16:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:26","slug":"international-womens-day-some-free-statistics-which-show-why-it-is-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2020\/03\/16\/international-womens-day-some-free-statistics-which-show-why-it-is-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day: some free statistics which show why it is necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some free statistics which show why the fight for gender equality is necessary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Femploymentandlabourmarket%2Fpeopleinwork%2Fearningsandworkinghours%2Fbulletins%2Fgenderpaygapintheuk%2F2019&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdceb305064494bb85cc608d7c74686f0%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637196978043350561&amp;sdata=wZJ2RVaSwkO%2B5uqfYE%2BoACqa0BumfQfWLnY7mhagWfw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">The Office for National Statistics<\/a>\u00a0records the current gender pay gap as 17.3% in 2019.\u00a0 This is declining but still high.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.weforum.org%2Freports%2Fglobal-gender-gap-report-2020&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdceb305064494bb85cc608d7c74686f0%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637196978043360556&amp;sdata=HU4BRKKlJfRAWHAFVpJZeI2DDqIsLmB6LyG%2BKoNJqug%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Global Gender Gap report 2020<\/a> is published annually by the World Economic Forum since 1996.\u00a0 It benchmarks over 140 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four general themes: economic participation, educational attainment, health, and political power.\u00a0 In 2020 it recorded across all measures a gap of over 30%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oecd.org%2Fgender%2Fdata%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdceb305064494bb85cc608d7c74686f0%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637196978043360556&amp;sdata=ym1PAt7Cnzvyo9WG7HrWVAB3Yl49WSiLmQyT9h1xX6k%3D&amp;reserved=0\">The OECD Gender Data Portal\u00a0<\/a>includes selected indicators shedding light on gender inequalities in education, employment, entrepreneurship, health, development and governance; they cover\u00a0 OECD member countries, as well as partner economies including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.genderindex.org%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdceb305064494bb85cc608d7c74686f0%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637196978043360556&amp;sdata=C%2Fyr64A3sJ2SUts3xsbrTWn6mNXLxm%2FXmPN%2F0%2FByBVE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)<\/a>\u00a0also from the OECD has cross-country measures of discrimination against women in social institutions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdatatopics.worldbank.org%2Fgender%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdceb305064494bb85cc608d7c74686f0%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637196978043370547&amp;sdata=4nOVpEJjpMLveHaKdOjL4p7yKHOxa4r9DEx%2BgzGcVaQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">World Bank Gender Data Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Free access to this excellent source which focuses upon demography, education, health, economic opportunities, public life and agency.\u00a0 Search and download data, country reports and data visualisations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.unwomen.org%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdceb305064494bb85cc608d7c74686f0%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637196978043370547&amp;sdata=nNNyYRo5DWS%2B0QvnzdEZPi%2BNppt94D91W8I3vrEcQa0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">UN women data reports\u00a0<\/a>include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.unwomen.org%2Fdata-portal%2Fsdm%3Ftab%3Dtable%26annex%3DHousehold%2520Composition%2520and%2520Living%2520Arrangements%26finic%255B%255D%3DP-13%26finic%255B%255D%3DP-15%26finic%255B%255D%3DP-17%26finic%255B%255D%3DP-19%26finic%255B%255D%3DP-20%26finic%255B%255D%3DP-34%26finic%255B%255D%3DP-35%26finic%255B%255D%3DP-37%26flocat%255B%255D%3D4%26flocat%255B%255D%3D50%26flocat%255B%255D%3D51%26flocat%255B%255D%3D104%26flocat%255B%255D%3D8%26flocat%255B%255D%3D24%26flocat%255B%255D%3D72%26flocat%255B%255D%3D32%26flocat%255B%255D%3D68%26flocat%255B%255D%3D76&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdceb305064494bb85cc608d7c74686f0%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637196978043380537&amp;sdata=6da2FlaPkiibYc9ibcapHlBJtpqx7bP9zCQ3dTXO32I%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Progress of the world&#8217;s women reports<\/a> .\u00a0\u00a0 It also has an interesting<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.unwomen.org%2Fresources%2Fassessing-data-and-statistical-capacity-gaps-better-gender-statistics&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdceb305064494bb85cc608d7c74686f0%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637196978043380537&amp;sdata=7Sq1%2FZckNpaoeU7Y0Qd3Hri%2BfvtgHV7BLoGZkQF%2BYN4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u00a0report on gender data gaps statistics.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some free statistics which show why the fight for gender equality is necessary: The Office for National Statistics\u00a0records the current gender pay gap as 17.3% in 2019.\u00a0 This is declining but still high. Global Gender Gap report 2020 is published annually by the World Economic Forum since 1996.\u00a0 It benchmarks over 140 countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10,13,15,9],"tags":[109,52,383,424,204,99],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-management","category-politics","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-equality","tag-feminism","tag-gender-equality","tag-gender-pay-gap","tag-inequality","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}