Social Institutions and Gender Index SIGI 2021 Regional Report for Southeast Asia
Achieving gender equality and tackling discriminatory laws, social norms and practices set a direct path toward a more inclusive economy and society. The SIGI 2021 Regional Report for Southeast Asia provides new evidence-based analysis on the setbacks and progress in achieving gender equality betwee...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Paris, France :
OECD Publishing
[2021]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009704563206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Reader's guide
- The Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019 conceptual framework
- Geographical coverage
- Timing and data sources
- Qualitative data
- Quantitative data
- SIGI scores and classification
- Glossary
- References
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Executive summary
- Discriminatory social institutions constitute major barriers to women's empowerment and their investment in human capital
- Laws and social norms limit women's access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and enable harmful practices that result in poor health and well-being outcomes
- While parity in education supports women's empowerment, deeply embedded social norms lead to gender segregation in education
- Women's economic and political empowerment is hindered by discriminatory laws and social norms
- A path towards gender equality: Key policy recommendations
- 1 The Social Institutions and Gender Index in the Southeast Asian region
- Social Institutions and Gender Index overview
- SIGI results in Southeast Asia show that discriminatory social institutions remain important
- Discriminatory social institutions yield a high economic cost, whereas increasing gender equality would constitute a tremendous growth opportunity
- SIGI results highlight wide variations across Southeast Asian countries
- The strongest forms of discrimination are those related to family and civil liberties
- Discriminatory social institutions constitute major barriers to women's empowerment
- Low health status resulting from discriminatory practices and social norms constrains women's empowerment
- Parity in education supports Southeast Asian women's empowerment, but discriminatory social institutions and biases continue to shape educational choices.
- The economic empowerment of Southeast Asian women is hampered by discriminatory norms and practices that curtail their labour participation, access to resources and skills development
- Women's empowerment requires amplifying women's voices in decision-making bodies
- A path towards gender equality: Key policy recommendations
- Update and harmonise legislation in line with international standards
- Develop enforcement mechanisms to effectively deliver justice
- Adopt a holistic and intersectional approach, taking into account women's diversity while engaging men and boys as positive agents of change
- Strengthen the scope and the quality of sex-disaggregated data collection at all geographical levels
- Improve communication and awareness
- References
- Notes
- 2 Thematic analysis
- Introduction
- Discrimination in the family is the most challenging issue in the Southeast Asian region
- Greater efforts are needed to end the practice of child marriage in Southeast Asian countries by 2030
- Legislation on equal household responsibilities should be strengthened to foster gender equality in the home
- Divorce rights are guaranteed in the majority of Southeast Asian countries, but child custody practices offer a mixed picture
- The enforcement of inheritance rights is key to women's economic empowerment in Southeast Asian countries
- Restricted physical integrity is the dimension in which the Southeast Asian region scores the best
- Violence against women still represents a significant challenge in the Southeast Asian region
- More data are required to estimate the prevalence of female genital mutilation in some Southeast Asian countries
- Missing women is an area of concern in Viet Nam
- Women's reproductive autonomy rights are limited and often threatened by discriminatory laws across Southeast Asian countries.
- Restricted access to productive and financial resources
- Laws guarantee women's access to land and non-land assets, yet exclude some groups of women
- Women's access to financial services has made great strides
- Deeply entrenched social norms and specific legal restrictions hamper women's workplace rights
- Restricted civil liberties
- Nationality laws uphold gender inequality in citizenship rights
- Women's political voice has improved at the national level since 2017
- While legal frameworks generally protect women's freedom of movement, social practices continue to limit women's mobility
- Legal pluralism continues to hamper women's access to justice
- References
- Notes
- Annex A. The SIGI's methodology
- Aggregation and construction of the index
- Step 1: Building the Gender, Institutions and Development Database
- Step 2: Building the indicators
- Step 3: Building the dimensions
- Step 4: Building the SIGI
- Definition of the variables
- Questions used to calculate the SIGI scores
- Annex B. Estimating the economic cost of discriminatory social institutions
- Estimating the cost of discriminatory social institutions
- Estimating the potential economic gains from gender equality
- References
- Notes.
