Wikigender: Initiating Dialogue on Gender Equality

Wikigender is the OECD's first Web site based on "wiki" technology. The site spearheads the OECD's new communication strategy to use web 2.0 tools to reach out to new communities. Involving the public in the gender debate will inform and support reform. The surprise is that little is known about gender equality around the world. Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, which seek gender equality in school enrolment, labor market participation and political representation, is hampered by the paucity of sex-disaggregated data. Where it exists, such data is frequently not comparable across countries and rarely provided on a periodic basis. Wikigender offers an open forum for sharing and exchanging information on the situation of men and women around the world, encouraging a frank discussion of the elements that prevent gender equality.