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Gender Parity Score (GPS) in Kenya as of 2019, by dimension

Characteristic	Score (1 = gender equality)
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November 2019

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Kenya

Survey time period

2019

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The source adds the following:
" GPS framework uses 15 indicators of progress towards gender equality. These 15 indicators span four dimensions, the first of which is gender equality at work. The other three relate to gender equality in society: essential services and nablers of economic opportunity, legal protection and political voice, and physical security and autonomy".
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"The Gender Parity Score weights each indicator equally and calculates an aggregate measure at the country level of how close women are to gender parity. A GPS of 1.00 indicates parity; a GPS of 0.95, for example, indicates that a country has 5 percent to go before attaining parity. For most indicators, low inequality is defined as being within 5 percent of parity, medium between 5 and 25 percent, high between 25 and 50 percent, and extremely high as greater than 50 percent from parity."

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As of 2019, the Gender Parity Score (GPS) revealed a high gap between men and women in Kenya, both in society and at work. The overall GPS in the country stood at ****, a result that indicated high gender inequality. A GPS score of *** indicates total parity between men and women - the nearer to ***, the nearer to closing the gender gap. Although both gender inequality at work and in society were considered high in Kenya, the performance on society dimension was better, at ****. This meant that women had ** percent of the opportunities that men did. In the work dimension, the country scored **** points.