The Gender Development Index (GDI)
A) measures the percentage of women who are illiterate and living in poverty.
B) uses the same variables as the Human Development Index but adjusts them downward to take into account the extent of gender inequality.
C) measures the extent of income inequality between households headed by males and households headed by females.
D) measures the difference in educational attainment between males and females.

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The Gender Development Index (GDI) uses the same variables as the Human Development Index but adjusts them downward to take into account the extent of gender inequality. It measures three dimensions of gender development: health (measured by female and male life expectancy at birth), education (measured by female and male expected years of schooling for children and female and male mean years of schooling for adults aged 25 years and older), and command over economic resources (measured by female and male estimated earned income).