We document that existing gender equality indexes do not take into account gender-specific mandatory peace-time conscriptions. This suggests that gender-specific conscription is not considered to be an important gender issue. If an indicator measuring the gender equality of mandatory...

While the education gap between women and men is closing in several developed countries, the gender gap in compulsory military service (CMS) and education still remains in some countries. The Historical Gender Equality Index introduced by Dilli et al. (2019) does not take into account...