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Wikigender

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Wikigender is a project initiated by the OECD Development Centre to facilitate the exchange and improve the knowledge about gender-related issues around the world. A special focus of this project is to collect empirical evidence and to identify adequate statistics and measurement tools of gender equality. In this respect, Wikigender serves as a pilot project for the Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies.

Wikigender aims to highlight the importance of social institutions such as norms, traditions and cultural practices that impact on gender equality. Wikigender is open to everyone. You can access all resources provided on this website and use its contents for your own personal needs, be it a research project on gender equality or simply your own interest in finding out more about this topic.Based on the work of the OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base, Wikigender aims to highlight the importance of social institutions such as norms, traditions and cultural practices that impact on women's empowerment. It uses the GNU Free Documentation License. Everything you contribute must be compatible with that license.


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