Default male: Gender disparity in data — Jade See | Malay Mail

MARCH 11 — This year's International Women’s Day theme “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change,” puts emphasis on the need to look at gender equality as a means to progress.

However, similar data on women is often absent. This “silence” on female-specific data is known as the gender data gap. These differences are crucial when recording injury risks in car crashes, but are not being captured in official data. Are women more at risk of serious injury in a car crash compared to men? We don’t know.

The gender data gap could also result in gaps within social protection schemes. In European countries, older women living alone are found to be more likely to fall into poverty than older men, with 64 per cent of older poor consisting of women. These areas are often underfunded, dismissed and unexplored, resulting in a poorer understanding of women’s quality of life and dignity in Malaysia.

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