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Gender
Equality & MDGs
Credit for Women
The
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) set a powerful agenda for a global partnership to fight poverty,
offering a shared vision of a better world by the year 2015.
They aim
to cut extreme poverty by half, ensure every child has the chance to go
to school and live a long and healthy life, and bring discrimination
against women to an end. The risks of dying as a result of childbirth
are to be dramatically reduced, deadly diseases brought under control,
the environment better managed, and the benefits of progress more
equally shared by all the nations of the world. Together, the
aspirations set out in the MDGs and their associated targets and
indicators represent a powerful framework for action.
Gender
Equality
The third
goal is to
Promote Gender Equality
and Empower Women.
(Goal 3 in Bangla)
Target
& Indicators
Target:
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably
by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015.
Indicators:
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Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
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Ratio of literate females to males of 15-24 year olds
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Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
Articles /
Reports on Gender
Equality & MDGs
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