Gender Social Norms Index

The first Gender Social Norms Index was recently released by the UN Development Programmme (UNDP).

 About the index

This index measures how social beliefs obstruct gender equality in areas like politics, work, and education, and contains data from 75 countries, covering over 80 percent of the world’s population.

The index found new clues to the invisible barriers women face in achieving equality – potentially forging a path forward to breaking through the so-called “glass ceiling”.