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