Women remain in the shadows because 80% of key global gender data is missing
The data considered ranged from standard indicators such as sexual
violence against women, maternal mortality ratio and literacy levels, to
the less obvious ones such as the number of female police officers and
judges. And this “missing data” is proving to be a serious impediment to
progress, given that policymakers, economists, and governments globally
rely on annual data to track issues concerning women empowerment.
