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GENDER COUNTS East and Southeast Asia A quantitative assessment of gender inequality and its impact on girls and boys UNICEF EAPRO Cover image credit: Cover Gender counts Sub-regional report for East & Southeast Asia This is one of four reports for the Asia and the Pacific region. Other assessments are available for Central Asia, South Asia and the Pacific. Suggested citation: United Nations Children’s Fund. Gender Counts: A quantitative assessment of gender inequality and its impact on girls and boys in East and Southeast Asia. UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 2019. This map is for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect a position by UNICEF or other collaborative organizations on the legal status of any country or territory or the delimitation of any frontiers. Prepared for UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office by Burnet Institute 85 Commercial Road, Prahran Melbourne, Victoria, Australia +61 3 9282 2111 burnet.edu.au ii GENDER COUNTS | EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA REPORT GENDER COUNTS East and Southeast Asia 1 of 4 sub-regional reports for Asia and the Pacific Empowered lives. Resilient nations. iii GENDER COUNTS | EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA REPORT Acknowledgements This report is the result of collaboration among many individuals and organisations. The research team was led by Elissa Kennedy and Peter Azzopardi of the Burnet Institute, Melbourne. Dr Kennedy led the development of the conceptual framework and definition of indicators, with Dr Azzopardi leading the data mapping, analysis, visualisation and drafting of the report. Lisa Willenberg, Karly Cini and Tom Tidhar assisted with data analysis and visualisation. Liz Comrie-Thompson and Dr Alyce Wilson assisted with drafting of the report. Dr Cathy Vaughan of the University of Melbourne provided specific technical inputs around the conceptual framework, indicators and measure of violence against women. Gerda Binder (Regional Gender Adviser) and Karen Humphries-Waa (Gender Consultant) from the UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office provided input on the concept, methodology, overall coordination, case study development, editorial support and extensive feedback on the report. Specific technical inputs were also provided by colleagues from the Asia and the Pacific Regional Offices of UNFPA, Ingrid Fitzgerald (Technical Adviser on Gender and Human Rights), Henriette Jansen (Technical Advisor on Violence against Women, Research and Data), and Josephine Sauvarin (Technical Advisor on Adolescents and Youth) and from UN Women, Ruangkhao Ryce Chanchai (Programme Specialist), Sara Duerto Valero (Statistics Specialist) and Janneke Kukler (Strategic Planning and Coordination Specialist). The editorial and research team thanks all who gave their valuable time and expertise in review of the draft report and support in data sourcing, including from the Asia Pacific region, namely Bettina Gatt and Clara Park (FAO); Sara Elder (ILO); Zara Rapoport (Plan International); Koh Miyaoi (UNDP); Sharita Serrao (UNESCAP); Maki Hayashikawa, Kabir Singh and Roshan Bajracharaya (UNESCO); Felicity Chard, Britta Schumacher and Yingci Sun (WFP); and from UNICEF New York Headquarters, Claudia Cappa, Chika Hayashi, Lucia Hug, Julia Krasevec, Suguru Mizunoya, Padraic Murphy, Colleen Murray, Mamadou Saliou Diallo, Tom Slaymaker, Takako Shimizu, Danzhen You and Xinxin Yu, with particular thanks to Lauren Pandolfelli, who coordinated the Headquarters input. Graphic design was carried out by Visual Traffic (Melbourne, Australia). Copy-editing was performed by Ruth Carr (Consultant). iv GENDER COUNTS | EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA REPORT Abbreviations and acronyms CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women CSE Comprehensive Sexuality Education DA LY Disability-Adjusted Life Year DHS Demographic and Health Survey, USAID FAO The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FGM/C Female Genital Mutlitation/Cutting GBD Global Burden of Disease GBV Gender-based Violence GPIA Adjusted Gender Parity Index GSHS Global School-based Student Health Survey HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus HPV Human Papilloma Virus IHME Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (Global Burden of Disease) ILO International Labour Organization IPU Inter-Parliamentary Union ITU International Telecommunication Union LMIC Low and middle-income countries MICS Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, UNICEF MSM Men who have Sex with Men NEET Not in Education, Employment, or Training OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development SOWC State of the World’s Children, UNICEF SRHR Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights STEM Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics STI Sexual Transmitted Infection UN DESA United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs UN IGME United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child UNESCAP United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNPD United Nations Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (DESA) UNSD United Nations Statistics Division WB World Bank WHO World Health Organization WHO GHO Global Health Observatory WHO/UNICEF JMP The Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene WLII World Legal Information Institute v GENDER COUNTS | EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA REPORT Glossary and definition of key terms Te rm Definition Source Adolescents Persons between the ages of 10-19 years in the phase known UNICEF, (10-19 years) as adolescence, which is a key developmental stage between WHO childhood and adulthood. Adolescence involves transitions in neurocognitive (brain) function, sexual maturation and physical changes in muscle mass and body composition, social role transitions (including formation of new relationships, transitions from school to employment and financial independence) and identity formation, including sexual orientation and gender identity. Children Below the age of eighteen years unless relevant law stipulates that UNCRC (<18 years) majority (adulthood) is attained earlier. Given the inclusion of adolescents in this report, the term ‘child’ is more commonly used to refer to those below the age of 10 years. Cisgender Gender identity and/or gender expression is aligned with the assigned UNESCO sex at birth. Disability- DALYs are the years of healthy life lost within a population. DALYs are IHME, WHO adjusted life the sum of years lost due to premature death and years lived with years (DALYs) disability. Discrimination The exclusion or unfair treatment of a person/group of people UNESCO based on different traits such as sex, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. Discrimination Discrimination against girls and women means directly or indirectly UN Women against girls and treating girls and women differently from boys and men in a way women which prevents them from enjoying their rights. Direct discrimination is more obvious e.g. in some countries women cannot legally own property; or they are forbidden by law to take certain jobs. Indirect discrimination refers to situations that may appear to be unbiased but result in unequal treatment of girls and women. For example, a job for a police officer may have minimum height and weight criteria, which women may find difficult to fulfil and prevents them from becoming police officers. Empowerment Empowerment involves gaining power and control over one’s own UN Women life. Empowerment of women and girls involves awareness-raising, building self-confidence, expansion of choices, increased access to and control over resources and actions to transform the structures and institutions which reinforce and perpetuate gender discrimination and inequality. vi GENDER COUNTS | EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA REPORT Gender Gender refers to the roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes UN Women that a given society at a given time considers appropriate for men and women. In addition to the social attributes and opportunities associated with being male and female and the relationships between women and men and girls and boys, gender also refers to the relations between women and those between men. These attributes, opportunities and relationships are socially constructed, learned through socialisation and are context/time-specific and changeable. Gender determines what is expected, allowed and valued in a woman or a man in a given context. Gender-based Gender-based violence (GBV) is an umbrella term for any harmful UNESCO violence act that is perpetrated against a person’s will and that is based on socially ascribed (gender) differences between females and males. The nature and extent of specific types of GBV vary across cultures, countries and regions. Examples include sexual violence, including sexual exploitation/abuse and forced prostitution; domestic violence; trafficking; forced/early marriage; harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation; honour killings; and widow inheritance. Gender Any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of CEDAW discrimination sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or