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Every year, the World Economic Forum publishes the World Gender Gap Report mainly based
on the results of the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) computed by country. This index is
made out of four subindexes to capture the magnitude of the gender gap in 4 areas: educational
attainment, economic participation and opportunity, political empowerment, and health and
survival; its methodology was reformed in 2006.
In this paper we adapt the GGGI to construct a Regional Gender Gap Index (RGGI) and we
compute it by regions (Comunidades Autónomas) in Spain with 2006 data. The RGGI could be
applied to other regions. Results of the RGGI show that not only are there gender gap
differences between Spanish regions in Spain, but that there are at the political empowerment
and economic participation and opportunity categories that those differences are strongest.
Geographic distribution of the gender gap shows that the deepest gaps are, in general, located
in the northern regions (Euskadi, with a high score, and Murcia and Extremadura, with low
scores, being exceptions); this is mainly due to the poor participation in politics of women in
those regions. |