0.314
is the index of gender inequality in Russia. In a country that has achieved full equality between men and women, this figure would be zero; however, no such countries exist in the world.
The Gender Inequality Index comprises maternal mortality, the number of teenage pregnancies, the status of women in the labour market, the level of education of women and men, the ratio of both sexes in parliament and a number of other indicators.
The closest country to the ideal of gender equality is Slovenia, which has a Gender Inequality Index of 0.021.
This information is presented in an article by Viktoria Sakevich, senior researcher at the HSE’s Institute of Demography. The article analyzes the global mathematics of gender inequality.
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‘Collective Action Can Lead to Real Progress for Rural Women Everywhere’
Gabriella Leelee Enchill is a third-year student at the HSE University Doctoral School of Sociology. She has a bachelor’s in Integrated Community Development from the University for Development Studies in her native Ghana and a master’s in Population and Development from HSE University. Her current research focuses on gender inequality in rural Ghanaian communities. Gabriella spoke to the HSE News Service about what her studies have uncovered about inequality in the region, how women can gain agency by banding together, and why studying these communities helps empower women around the world.
Economics and Gender
On Wednesday, December 11, 2013, Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, will give a talk at the Faculty of Sociology of the HSE within the International Research Seminar Series ‘Sociologies of Morality’. She is a feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family (or family economics), non-market work and the economics of care. We spoke to Nancy Folbre before the lecture.