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Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and ranking1.b.3) Degree of de facto discrimination against women in the workplace1.b.4) Availability, affordability and quality of childcare services, as well as the role of the extendedfamily in providing childcare2) Access to finance2.1) Building credit histories (a composite measure of the ability to build a credit history)2.2) Women’s access to finance programmes (availability of outreach programmes to women thattarget the provision of financial services through either government initiatives or private lenders)2.3) Delivering financial services2.4) Private-sector credit as a percent of Gross Domestic Product (this indicator has been banded toreflect both risk (unsustainable levels of credit that could result in macroeconomic instability), aswell as poor financing conditions (low levels of credit availability)3) Education and training3.1) School life expectancy (primary and secondary); women3.2) School life expectancy (tertiary); women3.3) Adult literacy rate; women3.4) Existence of government or non-government programmes offering small and medium-sizedenterprise (SME) support/development training4) Women’s legal and social status4.1) Addressing violence against women (existence of laws protecting women against violence)4.2) Freedom of movement (opportunity to move freely outside the house) for women4.3) Property ownership rights (this indicator considers if men and women have equal ownership rightsover moveable and immoveable property both by law and in practice)4.4) Adolescent fertility rate (age-specific fertility rate per 1,000 women, 15-19 years of age)4.5) Country ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination againstWomen (CEDAW)5) General business environment5.1) Regulatory quality5.2) Procedures, duration, cost and paid-in minimum capital for starting a business (a compositemeasure for starting a business)5.3) Infrastructure risk5.4) Mobile cellular phone subscribers per 100 inhabitantsA detailed explanation of each indicator and the sources is given in Appendix I.11© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010
Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingPotential drivers of women’s economicopportunityThe thematic categories and individual indicators in the pilot Women’s Economic Opportunity Index wereselected over the course of 18 months by teams of researchers and gender specialists. Many possibilitieswere reviewed and analysed. This section provides an overview of the key categories that comprise theIndex, and includes a discussion of many of the indicators. For more information on specific indicators,including empirical evidence behind the choices, please see Appendix I. For details on the scoringschemes for each indicator, as well as sources and definitions, see Appendix II. The benchmarking modelfor the Women’s Economic Opportunity Index, as well as the full dataset, is available on the EconomistIntelligence Unit’s website, at http://www.eiu.com/sponsor/WEO, and we encourage researchers to usethese data.12© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010
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