Promote gender equality and empower women

Target

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015

Recommended reading

Meeting Millennium Development Goals 3 and 5: ( B.N. Simwaka; S. Theobald; Y.P. Amekudzi; R. Tolhurst / British Medical Journal , 2005); This article, taken from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Africa issue, calls for gender equality to be put on the African agenda. The authors point out that of all the Millennium Development Goals...
Global Monitoring Report 2007: confronting the challenges of gender equality and fragile states: ( World Bank , 2007); The 2007 Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) assesses the contributions of developing countries, developed countries, and international financial institutions toward me...
Gender and Poverty in the context of human development, health, education and the MDG’s: ( B. Lopi / Southern African Regional Poverty Network , 2004); This background paper summarises the main issues around gender and poverty in southern Africa in the context of human development, health, education, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It co...
Taking action to improve women’s health through gender equality and women’s empowerment: ( C. Grown; G. Rao Gupta; R. Pande / The Lancet , 2005); Recommended reading; This Lancet article outlines how the persistent disadvantages experienced by women act as barriers to improved health status. The authors argue that long-term and sustained improvements in women’s hea...
Comparative evaluation of indicators for gender equity and health: ( V. Lin;S. Gruszin;C. Ellickson / International Journal of Public Health , 2007); This paper, published in the International Journal of Public Health, reports on a comparative evaluation of 1095 indicators selected from routine and special reporting by international organisations, ...