Middle Eastern Politics - POLS 271 - Andrews

This gender data portal is a one-stop shop for gender information, catering to a wide range of users and providing data from a variety of sources. A good way to start is by choosing your country from the "Country/Region" drop-down box under "Explore Dashboards".

Click on a country to view its UN Human Development Report, which includes the Gender Inequality Index and Gender Development Index.

Choose a country from the list.

This is a great place to start for data on gender. Try using Ctrl+F to search for a country within the publication.

A good starting point is to select a theme, then choose your country from the drop-down box just above the graphic.

Provides gender statistics for European countries.

Be sure to read the "Frequently Asked Questions" section to understand how the GDI is measured!

Be sure to read the "Frequently Asked Questions" section to understand how the GII is measured!

UN's basic statistics about violence against women; consider mining the bibliography (looking through the sources this article cites for more research).

This publication from the World Health Organization is a good starting point for researching violence against women. This page contains links to several other useful publications as well.

". . .includes more than 13,000 books, reports and papers reflecting the past and present research interests of ICRW."