OECD launches a wikigender

Wikigender.org:About

From Wikigender.org

Wikigender is a project initiated by the OECD Development Centre to facilitate the exchange and improve the knowledge about gender-related issues around the world. A special focus of this project is to collect empirical evidence and to identify adequate statistics and measurement tools of gender equality. In this respect, Wikigender serves as a pilot project for the OECD Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies. In particular, Wikigender aims to highlight the importance of social institutions such as norms, traditions and cultural practices that impact on gender equality. Examples of such measures are presented in the OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base.

Open Access Policy

Wikigender is open to everyone. You can access all resources provided on this website and use its contents for your own personal needs, be it a research project on gender equality or simply your own interest in finding out more about this topic.

In order to improve the information on this site, we invite your active participation: either by providing comments and suggestions, or by contributing new articles. We particularly encourage you to browse through the wanted pages section that contains articles that still need to be written.

If you decide to contribute to this project, we kindly ask you to follow a set of Policies and Conventions. Please do not infringe copyright. Wikigender uses the GNU Free Documentation License. Everything you contribute must be compatible with that license.

Project Team

Wikigender is managed by a small team of gender experts at the OECD Development Centre, Paris.

• Project manager: Denis Drechsler
• Senior advisor: Johannes Jütting
• Editorial development: Olivier Puech
• External consultant: Ralf Schukay (Berlin)

Partners

Wikigender is open to collaborate in the maintenance of the site with other organisations and initiatives. We look forward to welcoming new partners seeking to join this project. Our aim is to build an active community that uses and regularly updates this website. Inivited partners include other international organisations, NGOs and research institutes. We particularly look forward to welcoming partners from the developing world. Contact us at contact@wikigender.org.

• Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Sweden Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• Indian Centre for Economic and Social Studies
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)