• The 8 Millennium Goals •
3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education, no later than 2015
Quick Facts
- In 2008, there were 96 girls for every 100 boys enrolled in primary school, and 95 girls for every 100 boys in secondary school in developing regions.
- The share of women employed outside of agriculture remains as low as 20 per cent in Southern Asia, Western Asia and Northern Africa.
- The global share of women in parliament continues to rise slowly and reached 19 per cent in 2010 — far short of gender parity
