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The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is a measure of inequalities between men's and women's opportunities in a country. It combines inequalities in three areas: political participation and decision making, economic participation and decision making, and power over economic resources. It is one of the five indicators used by the United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. The UNDP is an executive board within the United Nations General Assembly....
 in its annual Human Development Report
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The Human Development Report is an annual milestone publication by the United Nations Development Programme .The report was first launched in 1990....
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ulating the GEM involves several steps.






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The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is a measure of inequalities between men's and women's opportunities in a country. It combines inequalities in three areas: political participation and decision making, economic participation and decision making, and power over economic resources. It is one of the five indicators used by the United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. The UNDP is an executive board within the United Nations General Assembly....
 in its annual Human Development Report
Human Development Report

The Human Development Report is an annual milestone publication by the United Nations Development Programme .The report was first launched in 1990....
.

Methodology

Calculating the GEM involves several steps. First percentages for females and males are calculated in each area. The first area is the number of parliamentary seats held. The second area is measured by two sub-components: a) legislators, senior officials, and managers, and b) professional and technical positions. The third area is measured by the estimated earned income (at purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity

The purchasing power parity theory uses the long-term equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize their purchasing power. Developed by Gustav Cassel in 1920, it is based on the law of one price: the theory states that, in ideally efficient markets, identical goods should have only one price....
 US$).

Second, for each area, the pair of gender percentages, are combined into an Equally Distributed Equivalent Percentage (EDEP) that rewards gender equality and penalizes inequality. It is calculated as the harmonic mean of the two components. The EDEP for economic participation is the unweighted average of the EDEP for each of its sub-components. The EDEP for income is computed from gender sub-values that are indexed to a scale from 100 to 40,000 (PPP US$).

Finally, the GEM is the unweighted average of the three Equally Distributed Equivalent Percentages.

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