The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)

The OECD Development Centre’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a cross-country measure of gender-based discrimination in social institutions across 160 countries. The SIGI looks at laws, practises and attitudes across five socio-economic areas that affect women’s lives: discriminatory family code, restricted physical integrity, son bias, restricted resources and assets, and restricted civil liberties. By focusing on discriminatory social institutions, the SIGI aims to expose the underlying drivers of gender inequality that block countries’ progress towards achieving equal outcomes for women and men.