This article offers a brief overview of the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) aimed at addressing gender inequality.
Women’s empowerment include:
(i) education,
(ii) ownership rights over property and assets,
(iii) women’s roles and status in the labor market,
(iv) job opportunities, and
(v) societal and family attitudes
Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM).
This focuses
(i) political participation and decision-making
(ii) economic participation and decision-making ability.
(iii) authority over economic resources, shown through the earnings of both genders. GEM is calculated as the average of these three measures. The core concept of GEM can be visualized in Figure 5.3.
