ABSTRACT
Since the 1940s the dominant measure of well-being is gross domestic product (GDP). GDP raises all the issues mentioned earlier when one is prepared to see them through a feminist perspective, a social perspective, and an ecological one. This chapter discusses various types of gender-aware well-being measures and, for the sake of feminist policymaking, indicates which stage of the capability approach they focus on. Gender Inequality Index measures male-female differences without favoring the disadvantages of one sex over the other, that is female disadvantage in one can be compensated by male disadvantage in another. Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is available for a limited number of countries due to lack of data and has been argued to fall short of capturing sustainability concerns. the GPI framework could report some of its components in gender-disaggregated terms (such as housework, leisure time, underemployment) and gender-aware narratives about non-quantifiable dimensions of well-being could complement the GPI.
