FOCUS: Britain, Japan pushing to visualize gender gaps at local level

Efforts to visualize gender inequalities at the local level have been under way in countries like Britain and Japan to help municipalities customize policies that otherwise might be difficult to formulate only using country-based indexes.In May, researchers unveiled findings from what they call Britain's first index to measure, map and analyze the socioeconomic outcomes of women and men across local authorities, touting the metrics as capturing "the nuanced realities of gender disparities" in areas including leadership participation.The Gender Equality Index UK, or GEIUK, consists of 19 ind…READ FULL ARTICLE