The GIRL Institute Index™ puts a number on what gender gaps cost institutions — and what closing them is worth.
One score from 0 to 100, built on 8 weighted domains and 42 evidence-graded indicators — for countries, banks, employers, regulators, universities, and public agencies.
Gender inequality isn't just unfair. It's expensive.
Every year, institutions leave real economic value on the table — in workforce participation, capital access, leadership, legal protection, public finance, and care capacity. The TGI Index™ makes that cost visible: it measures where the gaps are, estimates the value closing them could recover, and shows which actions are most likely to move the needle first.
Eight domains. Forty-two indicators. One score.
Each indicator is scored on the strength of real-world evidence, rolls up into its domain, and aggregates through weighted domains into a single 0–100 score. The full indicator registry and weighting are shared with pilot partners.
Labor Market Integration
How fully women participate in — and are rewarded by — the productive economy.
Financial Access
Whether women and women-led businesses can access capital and financial services on equal terms.
Institutional Leadership
Women's presence in the rooms where public and private decisions are made.
Legal & Regulatory
Whether the law treats women as full economic actors.
Public Finance
How public money is raised and spent — and who it actually works for.
Workforce Stability
The health, safety, and care conditions that keep women in the workforce.
Skills Development
Whether women are building the skills the economy rewards.
Statistical Capacity
Whether an institution can credibly measure any of this at all.
Built to be defended, not just published.
A completed TGI Index™ assessment runs four required stages — deterministic math wherever inputs are structured, and a full audit record everywhere else.
Define
8 domains, 42 indicators, and fixed domain weights — all locked before any scoring starts.
Validate
Every data point is graded on a five-tier evidence hierarchy — from national census and peer-reviewed data down to self-reported claims — with completeness and recency checks.
Score
Indicator scores aggregate through weighted domains into the 0–100 composite — reproducible from inputs, with every step recorded.
Act
The Index ranks your gaps by impact and feasibility, pairs them with prioritized strategies and timelines, and grounds each one in real comparable cases.
Not a report. A working platform.
The Index runs as a live product: log in, see your score, drill into any indicator, and act on what you find.
Live scorecards
Composite, domain, and indicator-level scores with a data-quality trust badge — click any row to see exactly how it was scored.
Gaps & recommendations
Your top gaps ranked by priority, each with concrete actions, an evidence-backed rationale, and cases from a library of 52 real interventions.
Peer benchmarking
Compare against a cohort of similar institutions — see your rank and the 75th-percentile bar on every domain.
Trends & annotations
Score history year over year, with policy changes, data updates, and methodology changes marked on the chart.
Exports & sharing
Full PDF and PowerPoint reports, revocable public share links, and an embeddable scorecard widget.
Ask in plain English
A natural-language query page answers questions about your data directly — no analyst required.
Put a number on the gap.
The TGI Index™ is in active pilot with a first cohort of institutions. If you want to know where your organization stands — and what closing its gaps could be worth — we'd love to talk.
Or email us at lisa@thegirlinstitute.org