Gender Data Portal

Full compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) “entails the rooting out of gender discrimination within the public sphere, the private sphere, the domestic sphere, and the individual sphere” (Englehart and Miller, 2014, p. 24). While ambitious and difficult to enforce, efforts to at least understand, which must come before solving, the complex issues around gender discrimination start with the accounting. The Gender Data Portal from the World Bank is just that accounting.

The homepage allows the user to look at statistics by country, by topic, indicators or microdata. Starting...