SPECIAL FEATURE
“The consequences of not including women in the data can be absolutely dire. The first and most fundamental consequence is that if we don’t know how women are faring, we cannot devise solutions to address their problems.”
“If we’re going to just close gender data gaps, we can try to do that quickly and cheaply. But if we don’t solve the systemic problems, we’ll be in the same place five years from now.”
gender-responsive statistics. I’ve been working on gender data for about 12 years now. I’ve never seen such a focus as I do now. Whether this focus will be here five years from now is a big question. I’m hopeful though. What I see is an increased demand for gender equality. Countries are waking up to the fact that they’re not going to get anywhere if gender inequalities persist. I think all countries are seeing that this is absolutely necessary. This, in turn, is driving the need for better data. What gets me out of bed is very simple: it’s my core belief that gender equality is a human right. It has to be done. We don’t have a choice. As a global community we each have a role to play. I ask myself ‘what can I do today?’ That, and my belief that we cannot achieve progress without data.”
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http://data.unwomen.org
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“Leadership is everything. If you don’t have the buy-in at the highest level – basically a country’s chief statistician – not much happens.”
What are gender statistics? Gender statistics reflect the lived realities of women and men in all areas of life. They are indispensable tools for developing evidence- based policies and solutions to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. While data and statistics are often used interchangeably in everyday conversation, there is an important difference between the two terms: “Data” refers to the raw quantities such as a person’s sex, age, income etc. while “statistics” are the results of data analysis. In other words, statistics help to make sense of raw data through collection, compilation, analysis and presentation.
See more at http://data.unwomen. org/en/gender-statistics
UN Women’s strategy for change is Making Every Woman and Girl Count (Women Count), which seeks to bring about a radical shift in how gender statistics are used, created and promoted at the global, regional and country level. The program works in three broad areas: • Enabling environment: Promoting a supportive policy environment to prioritize gender data and effective monitoring of the SDGs.
the SDGs.
• Data production: Supporting e improve the regular the regular production o tistics, including building the t tistic
t ta collection.
ction: Supporting efforts to ction of gender
statistics, including building the technical capacity of the national statistical systems and providing financial support to improve data collection.
•Data accessibita accessibility:lity: Improving a to inform policy advocacy throu such as open access, dissemina
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and user-producer dialogues.
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