Measuring the Global Gender Gap - Discussion on

GDI and GEM

Mary Scott

 

Dear All,

 

IFUW's Vice-President Louise Croot has now informed the Advocacy e-mail

network of an on line  discussion on the Gender-related Development

Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) organized by the

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2005. It might stimulate

some IFUW groups to participate in such a discussion. All details on how

to take part are given below:

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You can see the discussion and the contributions received so far

at: http://hdr.undp.org/network/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=100#409

 

You can join the discussion by signing up to the UNDP special network

set up for the occasion. You can do this at:

http://hdr.undp.org/network/reg.cfm. If you are having problems, please

send an email to the moderator of the discussion Hanna Schmitt

<hanna.schmitt@undp.org> with your names, email addresses,

position/title and organization/institution. She will sign you up.

 

If you want to contribute, please send your message to the following

email-address: surf-hdr-stats@undp.org The moderator will then send it

out to the network.

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Murielle Joye, Secretary General

International Federation of University Women

8 rue de l'Ancien-Port

1201 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel: (+41 22) 731 23 80  Fax: (+41 22) 738 04 40

E-mail: murielle.joye@ifuw.org  Internet:  http://www.ifuw.org