The Missing Data & The Need for it

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Dr Sudha NairCEO Biotech Park for Women, Chennai

Member, Gender Advisory Board, United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development

Statistics that adequately reflect differences and inequalities in the situation of women and men in all areas of life - United Nations, 2006

The felt need to measure the impact of the policies, programmes and progress in place

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Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society

A joint study by WISAT and OWSD & supported by the Elsevier Foundation comparing the performance of 6 countries/regions inclusive of India

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Country/Region Rankings

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Areas being Addressed

Retention

Recruitment

Reentry

R&D

Recognition

Reward

Remuneration

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Natl. gender –segregated data collection, gender auditing and Institute Transformation Award….

Some Significant Data

MDG3 : Promote gender equality & empower women

Some relevant indices: Social Institutions and Gender Value is 0.38112; Gender Gap Value is -0.619; Women’s Economic Opportunity Index –42.7 (84/113); Gender Diversity Index in the AP region- bottom!

The Indian HDR 2011 states that the HDI has improved by 21% between 1999-2000 and 2007 and 2008; Education index by 28.5% and Health Index by 13%

Gender Parity Index 2007: primary 0.97. Sec 0.88 and tertiary 0.70; age group 5-14 from 79.6 in 2004-2005 – to 87.7 in 2009-2010; 15-19 age group from 40.3 to 54.6 and 20-24 age group from 7.6 to 12.8 In 2011 % women teachers were 44 in primary level, 34 in secondary and 40 in tertiary; 60 at the lecturers level, 40 at the readers level and 20 at the professors level SN/12/02/2015

Some significant data

Representations in decision making bodies: 9/70 VC’s, 50/367 Deans; 6/77 Registrars; Govt Institutions 8-10%; Academies less than 10%; R&D work force 12.7%

Has the most working women in the world 35% of the formal workforce in the world but still ½ less than men (employment rate as of 2004-05: male 55% and female 29%). Women in Ag sector 91-86% and men 73-65%

4th All India Census done by MSME- 2009 reveals that 13.84% enterprises are owned by women and 10.10% managed by them. Bank accounts has risen from 18-38%

9,00,000 local elected women representatives and 11.46 of LS/RS (0/785)

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CensusesSurveys and Administrative sources

R&D StatsNISTADSIndia Year Book – Man profileWomen Men in India, Central Statistical Organization, Ministry of Statistics and programme implementation Govt of IndiaUNESCO Institute for Statistics/UN StatsUNESCO Science Report

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Some Sources of Data

Way Forward

Data – Process/Partnership

Document – Progress/Publish

Design – Policy/ Programmes

Domain – Public/Portal

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