In Search of Gender-Sensitive Measures of Poverty, Inequality and Well-Being

Celia Briar

This paper summarises a number of conventional methods of conceptualising and measuring poverty, inequality and well-being, and identifies ways in which they fail to fully expose gender-specific poverty and inequality. The paper also discusses a range of more recently developed methods, and assesses the extent to which both the established and newer measures and conceptualisations have the potential to become more gender-sensitive.