Gender-specific Call of Duty: A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices
We document that existing gender equality indices do not account for gender-specific mandatory peace-time conscription (compulsory military service). This suggests that gender-specific conscription is not considered to be an important gender issue. If an indicator measuring the gender equality of ma...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2201.09270 2023-05-15T16:49:15+02:00 Gender-specific Call of Duty: A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices Heikkilä, Jussi Laukkanen, Ina 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.09270 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09270 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2020.1844400 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY General Economics econ.GN FOS Economics and business ScholarlyArticle article-journal Article Text 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.09270 https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2020.1844400 2022-02-09T13:37:35Z We document that existing gender equality indices do not account for gender-specific mandatory peace-time conscription (compulsory military service). This suggests that gender-specific conscription is not considered to be an important gender issue. If an indicator measuring the gender equality of mandatory conscription was to be included in gender equality indices with appropriate weight, then the relative rankings of countries in terms of measured gender equality could be affected. In the context of the Nordic countries, this would mean that Finland and Denmark - the countries with mandatory conscription for men only - would have worse scores with respect to gender equality compared to Sweden and Norway, countries with conscription for both men and women - and Iceland, which has no mandatory conscription, regardless of gender. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Norway |
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We document that existing gender equality indices do not account for gender-specific mandatory peace-time conscription (compulsory military service). This suggests that gender-specific conscription is not considered to be an important gender issue. If an indicator measuring the gender equality of mandatory conscription was to be included in gender equality indices with appropriate weight, then the relative rankings of countries in terms of measured gender equality could be affected. In the context of the Nordic countries, this would mean that Finland and Denmark - the countries with mandatory conscription for men only - would have worse scores with respect to gender equality compared to Sweden and Norway, countries with conscription for both men and women - and Iceland, which has no mandatory conscription, regardless of gender. |
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Gender-specific Call of Duty: A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices |
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