Gender equality and empowerment
Subtitle: a statistical profile of the ESCAP region
By: [prepared by Lene Mikkelsen]
Contributors: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher: UNESCAP
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Women in development; Women; Statistics; Employment; Education; Equality
Other titles: Statistical profile of the ESCAP
Description: The current gender situation in the Asia-Pacific region is described through a small set of statistical indicators. Insight into individual indicators across the region can be obtained from the dataset in the comparative tables in Annex 1. The publication was prepared to assist the regional appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Beijing+10 global review on the occasion of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, forty-ninth session, New York, March 2005.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 24, 2009).