How Would I Measure The Equality Of The Gentlewomen In My Indian Life? When my second sister also gave birth to the second baby girl I went through a stunning depression. I thought I believed in the equality of women. The Rear Admiral psychiatrist consoled me saying the society is like that! I dare say that a good measure of a man is his willingness to take a stand in court against his brothers-in-law for the rights of his wife to her paternal-maternal inheritance - so that she can have it all to herself. Actually what does she if ever have, all to herself? Apart from the kids who are more all to themselves and the plans of the fathers parents? We dont want anything. Sirs, your wifes right to her parental inheritance is not anything. It is her human right. So it was heartening when the UN came up with indicators that can measure gender equity goals. Herewith I cull a variety of samplings (I - IV) for your and my perusal - this is my third edition of this stuff, its good! You may want to pay attention to how many times owning property figures into the measures. Gender Equity Goals and Measurement I. UN Indicators 1. Education (school enrolment and literacy rates), 2. Health (life expectancy) and 3. Income (GDP per capita). [In 1995, The UN introduced a gender-disaggregated version of its widely used Human Development Index (HDI): the Gender related Development Index (GDI). This indicator... incorporates gender differences in the three variables that make up the HDI] II. The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) of the UNDP. This index consists of three dimensions of empowerment: 1. economic participation and decision making, 2. political participation, and decision-making and 3. power over economic resources. The index consist of four indicators: (1) share of seats in parliament held by women; (2) female share of legislators, officials and managers; (3) share of female professional and technical workers; (4) ratio of estimated female to male income. III. Since the 1995 women’s conference, the OECD has set up an online database with about fifty gender indicators, the Gender Institutions and Development database (GID). Indeed, various, though not all, indicators in the database refer to institutions such as: 1. family law, 2. property rights, or 3. harmful practices such as female genital mutilation. The data are categorized into four categories: 1. family code, 2. physical integrity, 3. civil liberties,and 4. ownership rights. IV. Women’s Capabilities The work of Amartya Sen on the Capability Approach stresses that wellbeing should not be equalized with income, nor with utility maximization or basic needs, but with the capabilities that people have. Such a focus brings to the fore the need to measure poverty at the intra-household level, to take differences into account between women’s agency and their achieved functionings, and points at the important role of various institutional constraints and opportunities that may be gender-biased. Whereas Sen does not engage in listing particular capabilities, Martha Nussbaum (2000) has developed a list of ten capabilities from a gender-aware perspective [informed by interviews with women in India]. Her list consists of the following capabilities: (1) life (2) bodily health (3) bodily integrity (4) senses, imagination, and thought (5) emotions (6) practical reason (perception of the good and critical reflection about the planning of one’s life) (7) affiliation (to others and from others to oneself) (8) other species (9) play (10) control over one’s environment (political and material). (9) play (10) control over one’s environment (political and material). Accessing the Source, [Selections Formatted by self]: academia.edu/2866503/Gender_Equity (Look up for entire text, page 230f)
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