Gender Data Gap

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has just committed US$80 million over the next three years to close the gender data gap.

US$80 million is a lot of money to spend on research but when you consider that data isn't currently available to establish the baseline for 80% of the indicators of the UN’s Sustainability Development Goal #5 to achieve gender parity and empower all women and girls - it's clear we have a major problem which the Foundation is helping to address.

The dearth of data makes it difficult to set policies and gauge progress, preventing governments and organisations from taking measurable steps to empower women and improve lives. Access to more data, of better quality and greater frequency, provides governments with a huge opportunity to be responsive to their communities and to provide services that meet the needs of the people using those services.

At TWF, we applaud the Gates Foundation for their strong commitment to a research-based approach to solving some of the world's biggest challenges. In Hong Kong, despite the HK Administration's introduction of gender mainstreaming for various policy areas in 2002 and the network of Gender Focal Points that now exist within Government departments to assist in promoting gender mainstreaming initiatives in their respective areas, official gender-segregated data which is currently available is inconsistent and incomplete.

What this means is critical gaps in data regarding teen pregnancies, household spending on childcare and elderly care, disabled persons, and the relationship between perpetrators of domestic violence and their victims, making it more difficult for effective policies and programmes to be developed in these areas. We hope the influence of organisations such as the Gates Foundation will inspire a more rigorous gender-based approach to critical data collection, policy and programme formulation, execution and evaluation here in Hong Kong.

After all, as Melanne Verveer, the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, put it, “Data not only measures progress, it inspires it....To achieve the progress we seek and to make the best decisions we can, we need to ensure that women are counted in all that we do. Nothing less than our collective prosperity and security is at stake."

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May, 25 2018

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