ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces gender in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how GIS holds substantial potential for supporting efforts to end gender inequality and put gender on the map. GIS in gender can serve to illustrate distribution and access to resources, which in turn can help in solving socio-economic issues and reduce disparities between men and women and advancing LGBTQ rights. Global and country-level maps of measures of gender inequalities are illustrated to cover a detailed description of gender inequality from a global perspective, how it still exists globally despite substantial and international measures that have been taken toward gender equality. What are the evident progresses? And what are the alarming issues regarding gender inequalities that still prevail today? And what makes gender inequality a global priority as a fundamental step in both human development and economic progress?
