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| Occupational Gender Segregation Index× | Global Gender Gap Index× | |
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| Field | Gender Studies | Gender Studies |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1955 | 2006 |
| Originator≠ | Otis Dudley Duncan & Beverly Duncan | World Economic Forum (Hausmann, Tyson & Zahidi) |
| Type≠ | Distributional segregation index | Composite gap index |
| Seminal source≠ | Duncan, O. D., & Duncan, B. (1955). A methodological analysis of segregation indexes. American Sociological Review, 20(2), 210–217. DOI ↗ | World Economic Forum (2023). Global Gender Gap Report 2023. World Economic Forum, Geneva. link ↗ |
| Aliases | Duncan Dissimilarity Index, Index of Dissimilarity, Sex Segregation Index | GGGI, WEF Gender Gap Index, Global Gender Gap Report Index |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Occupational gender segregation indices measure how unevenly women and men are distributed across occupations. The most widely used is the Duncan and Duncan index of dissimilarity, introduced in 1955, which gives the share of women (or men) who would have to change occupations for the two distributions to match. Together with margin-free alternatives and decompositions into horizontal and vertical components, these indices are the standard tools for quantifying the sex segregation of labour markets. | The Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) is the headline measure of the World Economic Forum's annual Global Gender Gap Report, first published in 2006. It benchmarks gender parity by measuring female-to-male ratios across four subindexes — economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment — and reports the share of each gap that has been closed, deliberately ignoring countries' absolute levels of development. |
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