The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress

We examine six studies which use social indicators to assess women?s status and progress. We then identify the underlying social and economic goals assumed to be relevant to women and analyse the suitability of current social indicators for measuring progress toward these goals. We find that althoug...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Austen, Siobhan, Jefferson, Therese, Preston, Alison
Format: Working Paper
Published: Curtin University of Technology 2000
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45978