Gender equality and empowerment

The current gender situation in the Asia-Pacific region is described through a small set of statistical indicators. Insight into individual indicators across the region can be obtained from the dataset in the comparative tables in Annex 1. The publication was prepared to assist the regional appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Beijing+10 global review on the occasion of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, forty-ninth session, New York, March 2005.