Quantification
Quantification of findings increases audit impact. Where possible, audit procedures should include estimating the gender gap, and estimating the economic costs of gender inequalities or the savings that could result from correcting identified inequalities. Costs and savings estimates should be validated by a subject matter expert before they are published.
For example, an Australian study of Economic Cost of Violence against Women and their Children quantified impacts. The excerpt in Figure 3 highlights how this data might be used to show the cost to the economy of the issue to be corrected.
Figure 3 – Example of Good Presentation of Gender Equality Findings
Vulnerable GroupsThe ways in which women and their children experience violence, the options open to them in dealing with violence, and the extent to which they have access to services that meet their needs are shaped by the intersection of gender with factors such as disability, English language fluency, ethnicity, physical location, sexuality, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status, and migration experience. These factors act to increase vulnerability to the risk and effects of violence. The estimated cost of violence perpetrated against women from selected vulnerable groups is presented in Table 3.
Without appropriate action to 2021-22, violence against immigrant and refugee women is estimated to cost the economy just over $4 billion; against women with disabilities $3.9 billion; against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women $2.2 billion; and in relation to children who witness violence $1.5 billion. |
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