Search / Search Results Date Added to Site: 24th November 2005     Short Summary | Long Summary Title Gender and Trade Indicators Author van Staveren, I. Publication Date January 2002 Publisher Women in Development Europe (WIDE) Long Summary This Women in Development Europe (WIDE) information sheet - aimed at governments, trade policy makers, the WTO and academic researchers - is designed to assist efforts to measure and monitor the relationship between trade and gender. This tool consists of three sets of indicators, which can be applied to an analysis of any trading relationship between countries or trade blocks. The first are situational indicators, which describe the social and economic position of women. These should be utilised as a starting point for any gender analysis of trade. The second indicator is of political will, which measures the extent to which trade policy makers take gender concerns into account, and to what extent they actually include gender equality measures in the trade agreements they negotiate with a trading partner. Finally, there are dynamic indicators including measures such as trading volumes as well as a breakdown of trade by sector, including agriculture and manufacturing. These dynamic indicators provide insights into the links between gender and trade over the period that a trade agreement is operating, where, for instance, the situation before an agreement could be compared with the situation five years after the start of a trade agreement. They therefore show to what extent women gain or lose from increased trade. The information sheet concludes with a number of practical uses for these indicators, including assessments of how well gender policy coincides or overlaps with trade policy; the gendered effects of trade and the effect that trade has on gender relations; the need for gender-sensitive policy measures in trade agreements; and the need for gender-sensitive policy measures to be included in trade policy. Complete Document View PostScript Document (pdf)