West Africa: gender equality in unpaid care work by country

As of 2019, gender equality in Nigeria achieved a score of 0.66 in terms of unpaid care work. The country registered the highest score compared to the other countries in West Africa. This meant that, although both men and women undertook unpaid care work, the gender gap was most likely to be bridged in the country, in such a way that women were not the most unfavored. Moreover, Sierra Leone and Benin followed, in that, the parity indicator reached 0.33 and 0.32 points, respectively. According to the indicator, a score of one indicates total parity between men and women - the closer it is to one, the closer it is to closing up the gender gap.

Gender equality in unpaid care work in West Africa as of 2019, by country

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November 2019

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

2019

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The source adds the following:
"GPS framework uses 15 indicators of progress towards gender equality. These 15 indicators span four dimensions, the first of which is gender equality at work. The other three relate to gender equality in society: essential services and nablers of economic opportunity, legal protection and political voice, and physical security and autonomy".
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"The Gender Parity Score weights each indicator equally and calculates an aggregate measure at the country level of how close women are to gender parity. A GPS of 1.00 indicates parity; a GPS of 0.95, for example, indicates that a country has 5 percent to go before attaining parity. For most indicators, low inequality is defined as being within 5 percent of parity, medium between 5 and 25 percent, high between 25 and 50 percent, and extremely high as greater than 50 percent from parity".

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