Explain the difference between GDI and GEM and do you think that these measures are really appropriate to measure women's status and decision-making power in the Arab region

The United Nations development program is a program aimed and geared towards helping developing nations towards real development. Obviously development can't by any means take place without the presence of gender equality. In United Nations development program has developed two methods in order to measure both women's development as well as women's empowerment. The two conceptual indexes that measure women's development and their empowerment are the GDI and the GEM indexes. I do not believe …

…the Arab world as a whole. Again I feel that the UNDP has put too much emphasis on money to establish women dependence, economic empowerment and gender empowerment are two completely different things that the UN and the UNDP continues to confuse. I don't know I tend to agree with you that this is probably a purely political decision that makes the Arab world look extremely bad whereas the truth is quite different from that.