Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering WomenEarthscan, 2005 - 257 pages The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. This report lays out the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality. The Task Force recommends seven strategic priorities: strengthen postprimary education for girls while ensuring universal primary education; guarantee sexual and reproductive health and rights; reduce women's and girls' time burdens; guarantee property and inheritance rights; eliminate gender inequality in employment; increase women's participation in government; and significantly reduce violence against women. Action on these priorities will enable countries in every region of the world to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment by 2015. |
Contents
Executive summary | 1 |
A problem with a solution | 27 |
Task force perspective on gender equality and empowerment | 30 |
Strengthen opportunities for postprimary education for girls | 36 |
Guarantee sexual and reproductive health and rights | 53 |
Invest in infrastructure to reduce womens and girls time burdens | 66 |
Guarantee womens property and inheritance rights | 75 |
Reduce gender inequality in employment | 88 |
The financial costs of interventions to achieve gender inequality | 130 |
Making it happen | 138 |
Education projections and country level education data | 155 |
Reproductive health statistics | 178 |
Employment statistics | 180 |
Statistics on womens political participation | 189 |
Employment indicators | 197 |
Summary of ediscussion facilitated by ActionAid International United Kingdom | 198 |
Increase womens representation in political bodies | 104 |
Combat violence against women | 110 |
Data and indicators for monitoring progress | 122 |
Notes | 215 |
References | 224 |
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