Factly #1378 Gender Social Norms Index(GSNI) (7th March, 2020)

News:The United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) has released the Gender Social Norms Index(GSNI).

Facts:

About the index:

• The index measures how social beliefs obstruct gender equality in areas like politics, work and education.

• It contains data from 75 countries covering over 80 percent of the world’s population.

Key takeaways from the index:

• Only 24% of parliamentary seats worldwide are held by women and there are only 10 female heads of government out of a possible 193. About 50% of the world’s men and women feel that men make better political leaders.

Additional information:

About UNDP:

• The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network established in 1965.It is headquartered in New York,US.

• The various reports published by UNDP are a) Gender inequality index b) Human Development Index(HDI) among others.