This publication provides important information and graphical analysis related to gender equality and empowerment of women in the Arab region. It includes sex-disaggregated data and gender-sensitive indicators needed for gender analysis. The facts and figures along with national policies and practices in various interlinked areas are compiled from international and comparable national sources. It is an ongoing endeavor, updated and expanded regularly to provide researchers and those responsible for data compilation with gender-related information to reveal the discrepancies, the reasons behind these inequalities and its impact on our lives.
Chapter 1: HUMAN RIGHTS
- Human rights conventions
- Countries' parties to CEDAW, their reservation and optional protocol
- Gender equality conventions
- CEDAW
- Societal institutions
Chapter 2: POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS
- Growth, youth and the elderly
- Age groups
- Head of household
- Child and old-age dependency
- Live births
- Deaths
- International migrants age
- Women in international migration
- International migrants population
- Family planning and fertility
- Adolescent fertility
- Childbearing age
- Marital status
- Marriages and divorces
Chapter 3: POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
- Poverty
- Surviving to age 40
- Dietary energy consumption
- Underweight children
- Adult illiteracy
- Unemployment
- Youth unemployment and education
- Unemployment by economic activity
- Access to drinking water
- Access to sanitation
- Use of solid fuels
- Indoor air pollution deaths
Chapter 4: EDUCATION AND LEARNING
- Broadening people's choices to acquire knowledge
- Compulsory education
- Adult and youth literacy
- Females students
- Over-age enrolment
- Pre-primary education
- Primary education
- Students intake
- Repeaters and out of school in primary cycle
- Secondary education
- Repeaters in secondary cycle
- Tertiary education
- Tertiary programmes
- Female tertiary graduates
Chapter 5: POWER, INFLUENCE AND DECISION-MAKING
- Parliament
- Lower and upper house in parliament
- Affirmative action in parliament
- High decision-making positions
- Political parties
- Judiciary and senior officials
- Law and order
- Diplomacy
- Decision-making in household spending
- Participation in household decisions
Chapter 6: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- Early marriage
- Emotional, physical and sexual violence
- Female genital mutilation
- Women's attitudes towards wife beating
- Women's attitudes towards refusing sex with husband
Chapter 7: HEALTH
- Country's expenditure on health
- People's share in expenditure on health
- Life expectancy at birth
- Living with HIV/AIDS
- Smoking
- Antenatal care
- Births attended by skilled health personnel
- Contraceptive prevalence
- Unmet need for family planning
- Abortion and family planning
- Maternal mortality
- Causes of deaths
- Deaths and reproductive cancers
- Children and measles
- Children and Malaria
- Children and diarrhea
- Children and pneumonia
- Infant and child mortality
- Deaths and childhood-cluster diseases
- Disability status
- Disability and age
- Domains of disability
- Disability and literacy
Chapter 8: REFUGEES
- Refugees, asylum-seekers & internally displaced persons by country of asylum
- Refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced persons by origin
- Demographic composition of refugees
- Demographic composition of refugee population (UNHCR)
- Accommodation of refugees
- Accommodation of refugee population (UNHCR)
Chapter 9: PAID AND UNPAID WORK
- ILO gender-related conventions
- Work policies
- Labour force participation
- Labour force educational attainment
- Adult employment
- Youth employment
- Children employment
- Employment in public and private sector
- Employment by sector
- Employment by economic activity
- Paid employment
- Paid hours of work
- Wages
- Earned income
- Wage and vulnerable employment
- Occupation in employment
- Wage employment in non-agricultural sector
- Employment status in agricultural sector
- Agricultural and non agricultural work
- Informal sector
- Time spent on paid and unpaid work
Chapter 10: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT