Gender inequalities have important negative
implications for development outcomes and families'
well-being. Women and girls generally bear the most
direct costs of these inequalities because of
discriminatory social norms, incentives, and legal
institutions. While women's status has improved in
recent decades, gender inequalities affecting them
remain pervasive
Gender
inequality starts early and keeps women at a
disadvantage throughout their lives. In some countries,
infant girls are less likely to survive than infant boys
because of parental discrimination and neglect – even
though biologically infant girls should survive in
greater numbers. Girls are more likely to drop out of
school and to receive less education than boys because
of discrimination, education expenses, and household
duties.
Eliminate
gender disparity in primary and secondary education,
preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no
later than 2015.
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