Gender equality indices are increasingly influential tools used for governance and knowledge production. This article evaluates the adequacy of the seventeen existing multi-dimensional gender equality indices and shows that all but one neglect unpaid reproductive labor to varying degrees. The empirical analysis offers three lessons for these indices’ improvement. First, that it is possible to measure the gendered division of unpaid reproductive labor using gender equality indices. Second, that data availability need not compromise the coherence of the indices’ frameworks. Finally, that indices can reduce the overbearing emphasis on quantitative indicators in governance by complementing their findings with qualitative analyses.

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忽视生殖劳动：性别平等指数的批判性审查

性别平等指数是用于治理和知识生产的越来越有影响力的工具。本文评估了现有的 17 个多维性别平等指数的充分性，并表明除了一个之外，其他所有指数都不同程度地忽视了无偿的再生产劳动。实证分析为这些指数的改善提供了三个教训。首先，可以使用性别平等指数来衡量无偿生殖劳动的性别分工。其次，数据可用性不必损害指数框架的连贯性。最后，这些指数可以通过用定性分析补充它们的发现来减少治理中对定量指标的过分强调。