While existing gender-specific measures focus on key economic and social indicators, such as employment or education, the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) instead captures what drives gender inequalities in economic and social outcomes by examining a neglected aspect of gender inequality: discriminatory social institutions. This technical note explains how the sub-indices are built and aggregated to compute the SIGI.
The construction of the SIGI and its sub-indices
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