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Women and Men in OECD Countries is a brochure compiled by the OECD with the purpose of providing best-practice examples of the importance of disaggregating data by sex, in order to help countries improve gender policies. It claims that gender-sensitive analysis, such as the brochure, will be necessary to take into account for policy-analysis if countries are going to want more "growth, employment and a better standard of living."

The brochure looks at six focal areas in which gender-sensitive indicators are necessary in order to allow for the next stage of better policies for men and women; this stage being to "understand why... differences occur, and then what we can do about them." ^[1][2]

The six focal areas and their fundamental indicators (disaggregated by sex) are:

Population

• Ratios of women to men
• Ratios of women to men at different ages
• Total fertility rates
• Decline in total fertility rates
• Ratio of male to female immigrants
• Gender breakdown of immigrants to OECD countries by country of birth

Education

• Gender distribution of students receiving additional funding for disabilities and learning abilities
  
• Gender distribution of disadvantaged students receiving additional resources
  
• Gender differences in student performance in math PISA
  
• Gender differences in student performance in reading PISA
  
• Percentage of men and women aged 25-64 with tertiary education
  
• Differences in tertiary education by people aged 25-34 and 55-64
  
• Percentage of university graduates in health and welfare subjects
  
• Percentage of university graduates in engineering, mathematics and construction subjects
  

Labour Market

• Percentage of people aged 15-19 who are not in education or work
  
• Average annual growth in rates of youth inactivity
  
• Gender wage gaps
  
• Gender gap at the top and bottom of the earnings distribution
  
• Percentage of men and women of working age in employment
  
• Difference between women and men in annual average increases of employment rates
  
• Unemployment as a percentage of the male and female labour forces
  
• Female unemployment rates (time-series)
  
• Percentage of self-employed as a percentage of employed men and women
  
• Female self-employment and per capita GDP
  
• Percentage of employed persons who work less than 20 hours per week
  
• Percentage of employees who work more than 45 hours per week
  
• Number of occupations that account for half of total employment
  
• Concentration of employment in 20 OECD countries
• Gender gap in employment of native-born and foreign-born adults
  
• Gender gap in employment rates, native-born and foreign-born
  

Political and Economic Power

• Percentage of parliamentary seats held by women
  
• Percentage of women in parliament and percentage of women in employment
  
• Percentage of employees in managerial posts
  
• Percentage of employees in professional posts
  

Social Issues

• Percentage of people who feel an above average level of satisfaction with their lives
• The satisfaction gap
  
• Percentage of persons who rarely or never spend time with friends, colleagues or others in social groups
  
• Gender gap in social isolation
  
• Female prisoners as a percentage of total prison population
  
• Prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants
  

Health

• Average annual percentage growth in life expectancy
  
• Life expectancy at birth
  
• Deaths from circulatory diseases
  
• Deaths from cancer
  
• Percentage of men and women reporting that they smoke daily
  
• Long-term fall in tobacco consumption in 16 OECD countries
  
• Percentage of adults considered overweight
  
• Percentage of adults considered obese
  

References

1. ↑ OECD. (2006). Women and Men in OECD Countries. Paris, FR: OECD Publications.
2. ↑ http://www.oecd.org/document/32/0,3343,en_21571361_38039199_38167008_1_1_1_1,00.html. (2006). OECD.org. Retrieved on 2-11-2010.