The critical analysis of international gender indices

Student: Natalya Bulchenko

Educational Programme: Complex Social Analysis (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

International indices of gender inequality are analyzed in the paper. Assessing the substantive and convergent validity together with reliability is applied to identify the beneficiaries of gender indices and to detect their explicit and hidden social objectives. Despite the fact that international indices declare compliance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, they represent an ethical camouflage for neoliberal and patriarchal policies and are an international tool for reproducing gender inequality.

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