Talk:Gender Inequality Index

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I am in the process of creating this page for an economics course at the University of Utah. Any questions or suggestions are welcome. Teashias (talk) 18:57, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

One critique I have, is I am guessing that Dr. Berik will want you to tie this into the class. Why does it matter? How does it related to gender econ? Your organization looks really great. All of the sections and sub sections make it easy to read and find what you’re searching for. One thing I think could be added is the possibility of data being skewed due to bias or confounding. Hmorris3 —Preceding undated comment added 20:06, 23 April 2012 (UTC).[reply]

I think the concepts you are discussing in your article can be elaborated more, specifically the following. Under your heading, "Mix Indices", you wrote that one of the issues/concerns with this measurement is that it "lacks transparency", and using arthemetic mean of ratio is stated as a problem by you. I guess you can further explain these terms for the readers, so they can fully comprehend, why they are problem? In your heading "Regional Relevance", you wrote that "robust to alternative specifications of gender-related indicators", again i feel you can shed more light on this, so reader don't have to guess what you mean by it. Under "Choice of variable", you have mentioned "unpaid work", and you have stated that GII ignores unpaid work, and that's why it is unable to fully capture the gender disparities. I think you can talk about gender division of labor here, which will make your point more clear to readers. Because one can ask, how gender disparities will be captured more optimally if unpaid work is included in GII, how it makes difference? Overall I think your article is very well organized and written. You have done a good job:) Dkhan2012 (talk)