DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Data2X made a big impact at the United Nations World Data Forum in October, helping to make gender a core part of discussions of data gaps, solutions, and communicating impact. Gender data has taken off in the past five years among the global data community with Data2X executive director, Emily Courey Pryor, calling the marked change “gratifying.”
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But it is not a shift that can be taken for granted, and there is a risk that gender data won't be integrated into broader data systems, Pryor said.
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