Millennium Development Goals
What Are the Millennium Development Goals?
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
The inclusion of women in education and the workplace are interrelated issues: societies where women have greater equality stand a much greater chance of improving the quality of life for everyone.
At this point, two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women, and the employment rate for women is two-thirds that for men.
Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal3.shtml