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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| author | Austen, Siobhan Jefferson, Therese Preston, Alison |
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| description | 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 although each of the six studies uses a variety of meaningful indicators, it is relatively easy to identify significant areas of women?s experiences that remain neglected. We suggest that these ?blind spots? may result from two possible and related sources. The first relates to the method in which definitions of women?s progress are constructed. The second reflects poor or limited data collection in some significant areas of relevance to women?s social and economic status. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-459782017-01-30T15:24:31Z The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress Austen, Siobhan Jefferson, Therese Preston, Alison 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 although each of the six studies uses a variety of meaningful indicators, it is relatively easy to identify significant areas of women?s experiences that remain neglected. We suggest that these ?blind spots? may result from two possible and related sources. The first relates to the method in which definitions of women?s progress are constructed. The second reflects poor or limited data collection in some significant areas of relevance to women?s social and economic status. 2000 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45978 Curtin University of Technology fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Austen, Siobhan Jefferson, Therese Preston, Alison The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress |
| title | The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress |
| title_full | The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress |
| title_fullStr | The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress |
| title_full_unstemmed | The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress |
| title_short | The challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress |
| title_sort | challenges of defining and measuring women's social and economic progress |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45978 |