It appears that an almost unquestioned development pathway for achieving gender equity and women's empowerment has taken centre stage in mainstream development. This pathway focuses on economic outcomes that are assumed to be achieved by increasing women's access to material things, including cash income, loans, physical assets, and to markets. Gender equity indicators, which measure progress towards these outcomes, cannot escape reinforcing them. We argue that far from being neutral, indicators are embedded in political and ideological agendas that serve as guides to the appropriate conduct of those whose performance or behaviour is being measured. Drawing on participatory feminist, diverse economies and strengths based approaches, we outline a research methodology for developing community‐based indicators that recognises women's and men's participation and relationships in all spheres of life, including the ‘non‐economic’. If indicators are grounded in local meanings and realities, we propose that community members can use them to identify aspirational goals for gender equity, and measure progress towards these goals.

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建立基于社区的性别平等指标：一种方法

看来，实现性别平等和增强妇女权能的几乎毫无疑问的发展道路已成为主流发展的中心阶段。该途径侧重于通过增加妇女对包括现金收入，贷款，实物资产和市场在内的物质事物的获取而实现的经济成果。衡量这些成果进展情况的性别平等指标不能逃避地加强这些指标。我们认为，指标不是中立的，而是嵌入政治和意识形态议程中的，这些议程可作为衡量其绩效或行为的人的适当行为的指南。借助参与式女权主义，多元经济和基于优势的方法，我们概述了一种研究方法，用于开发基于社区的指标，该指标认可了妇女的 男性和男性在生活的各个领域（包括“非经济”领域）的参与和关系。如果指标基于当地的意义和现实，我们建议社区成员可以使用它们来确定实现性别平等的理想目标，并衡量实现这些目标的进度。