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HUMAN 
DEVELOPMENT
REPORT
1995

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

HDRO | UNDP
 
GENDER AND
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Human Development, If not engendered, is endangered. That is the simple but far- reaching message of Human Development Report 1995. The Report analyses the progress made in reducing gender disparities  in the past few decades, highlights the wide and persistent gap between women's expanding capabilities and limited opportunities, introduces two new measures for ranking countries on a global scale by their performance in gender equality, analyses the under-
valuation and non-recognition of women's work and offers a five-point strategy for equalising gender opportunities in the decade ahead. An innovative feature of this year's Report is the design of two new  composite indices - the gender related development index (GDI) and the  gender empowerment measure (GEM), both of which rank countries on  a global scale of gender equality. The GDI captures gender inequality in  human capabilities, and the GEM reflects inequalities in key areas of  political and economic participation and decision-making. The Report also brings together, for the first time, considerable data from a sample of countries on the contributions of women and men to  paid and unpaid work. The Report concludes that that the unvalued contribution of women is so large that any reasonable valuation would lead to a fundamental change in the premises on which today's  economic, social and political structures are founded.