Gender Sensitive Indicators:

It is a tool to assess the progress of a particular development intervention towards

the achieving gender equality.

Importance of Gender Sensitive Indicators:

1.     It shows the gender inequalities in the society.

2.     It gives evidence on progress towards gender equality.

3.     It provides evidence on the development of progrmmes, policies and projects that respond to the needs of women and men.

4.     It is a learning processes for policymakers and stakeholders by making gender inequalities visible.

5.     It contributes in increasing citizen's and decision-making awareness on gender inequalities that may encourage to take action.

6.     It provides evidence for monitoring and evaluation.

Types of Indicators:

1. Quantitative Indicators:

It produces quantifiable results and measures of quantity. It focus on issues that can be counted such as percentages of women and men in the labor market, male and female wage rates or school enrolment rates for boys and girls. It can show the magnitude of change in gender equality. The sources of quantitative indicators are data systems and records where information is presented in a sex-disaggregated manner, census, labor force surveys, administrative records and sociological surveys.

2. Qualitative Indicators:

It captures people's experiences, opinions attitudes and feelings. Eg: women's experience to the constraints or advantages of working in the informal sector. It is useful for understanding processes but frequently do not show typical or widespread the expressed views. It is harder to measure as they involve processes and use categories of classification such as those based on perceptions. It indicates changes in attitudes and behavior, growth in knowledge and skills, self-reliance, confidence. The sources of qualitative indicators are: public hearings, focus groups, attitude surveys and interviews, participant observation.