The SIGI 2023 Global Report: Gender Equality in Times of Crisis was prepared by the OECD Development Centre under the guidance of Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director of the OECD Development Centre, and Bathylle Missika, Head of the Networks, Partnerships and Gender Division. Led by Hyeshin Park, Economist and Gender Programme Co‑ordinator, the report was drafted by Carolin Beck, Pierre de Boisséson, Ginevra Coda Nunziante, Estelle Loiseau and Alejandra Meneses. Isabella Brandes, Hannah Brügmann, Sanya Chandra, Ginevra Coda Nunziante and Isabella López Trejos provided critical research and statistical support. The production of the report was co-ordinated by Pierre de Boisséson, Economist. The report was edited by Jill Gaston. Thanks are owed to the Publications and Communications team, particularly to Rebecca Appel, Mélodie Descours, Delphine Grandrieux, Bochra Kriout, Elizabeth Nash, Laura Parry-Davies, Irit Perry and Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte. Sabrina Bouldi and Sonja Marki provided invaluable administrative support throughout the collection of data and the elaboration of the report.
The Gender team is extremely grateful to all OECD colleagues who provided important statistical support, guidance and control throughout the revision of the framework, the data collection process, the construction of the index, and the publication and dissemination of data. Special and deep thanks go to Julien Dupont from the Statistics and Data Directorate for his guidance and support in conducting the SIGI statistical quality review in 2021; to Eric Anvar, Arnaud Atoch, Brunella Boselli, Denis Chenu, Gyorgy Gyomai, Karine Lepron and Samuel Pinto-Ribeiro from the Statistics and Data Directorate for their relentless support during the collection of data; to Nelson Amaya, Justina La and Madeleine Lessard from the Development Centre for their statistical inputs during the construction of the index; and to Jonathan Dayot, Vincent Finat-Duclos and Vincent Gallart, as well as Ludivine Baudouin, Janine Treves and Kristin Sazama, from the Public Affairs and Communications Directorate for the design and construction of the SIGI website and its data dashboard.
The report benefited from the insights and comments of OECD colleagues. The Gender team would like to highlight the support of Lorenzo Pavone and Ayumi Yuasa (Development Centre), Willem Adema, Valentina Bellesi, Cibele Cesca, Francesca Colombo, Mollie Cretsinger, Gaëlle Ferrant, Céline Giner, Maja Gustafsson, Jenny Hedman, Capucine Kerboas, Réka Mihácsi, Giulia Morando, Tatyana Teplova, Monika Queisser, Lisa Williams and Dimitra Xynou (OECD), Lauren Harrison and Liliana Suchodolska (Paris 21), Jennifer Shehan (Sahel and West Africa Club). The report also benefited from the comments and suggestions from non-OECD colleagues, including Alejandra Castro (Co-chair of the Business and Sustainability Working Group of EMNet), Annette Aharonian and Rosa Garcia (Sustainable Energy for All), Rehab Al-Sanabani, Anou Borrey, Caitlin Boyce, Shani Harris, Ana Rojas and Corrado Scognamillo (UNDP), Zach Brehmer (Waterloo Foundation), Cynthia Dushime, Erin Hulme and Noemie Noveck (WHO Foundation).
The Gender team is grateful to all the members of the Governing Board of the Development Centre who provided valuable comments and suggestions, as well as to the members of the SIGI Working Group who provided guidance all along the process of collecting data, analysing the results and drafting the report.
The Development Centre would like to extend its gratitude to the members of the SIGI Technical Group who presided over the revision of the conceptual and methodological frameworks: Fareda Banda, Shailaja Chandra, Jacques Charmes, Andrea den Boer, Geske Dijkstra, Caroline Harper, Stefan Klasen, Inaki Permanyer and Amber Peterman. Special thanks go to Eduardo Zambrano of California Polytechnic State University for revising the methodological framework in 2017 with the Development Centre’s Gender team.
The Development Centre is immensely grateful to all the legal experts and lawyers that completed the SIGI 2023 Legal Survey and answered its 173 questions between March 2022 and February 2023. Their work and dedication were crucial to building the SIGI 2023 legal database that looks at discrimination in formal and informal laws across 15 of the 16 key areas of the SIGI conceptual framework. The full list of legal experts and lawyers who participated in and authorised the Development Centre to publicly disclose their participation can be found on the SIGI website.
Finally, the OECD Development Centre is grateful for the strong, generous and long-standing support of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), Ireland, Korea, Switzerland and the Waterloo Foundation.