{"title":"The use of entropy index for gender inequality analysis","authors":"V. Ekhosuehi, A. Osagiede","doi":"10.4314/GJMAS.V9I1.62497","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the Millennium Declaration, the proportion (or ratio) of females to males in a given sector is used as the indicator for gender inequality. A critical limitation in the proportion (or ratio) statistic is that it does not include randomness in gender disparity over a period of time. It is well-known that randomness, which is a key ingredient in studying the behaviour of a system, is measured using entropy. This paper presents the use of entropy as an alternative measure for gender inequality in a sector of an economy. KEYWORDS: Entropy; gender inequality; Millennium Declaration; randomness.","PeriodicalId":126381,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Mathematical Sciences","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Global Journal of Mathematical Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJMAS.V9I1.62497","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In the Millennium Declaration, the proportion (or ratio) of females to males in a given sector is used as the indicator for gender inequality. A critical limitation in the proportion (or ratio) statistic is that it does not include randomness in gender disparity over a period of time. It is well-known that randomness, which is a key ingredient in studying the behaviour of a system, is measured using entropy. This paper presents the use of entropy as an alternative measure for gender inequality in a sector of an economy. KEYWORDS: Entropy; gender inequality; Millennium Declaration; randomness.