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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS - MDG'S

Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

When a country educates its girls, its mortality rates usually fall, fertility rates decline, and the health and education prospects of the next generation improve.

Unequal treatment of women--by the state, in the market, and by their community and family--puts them at a disadvantage throughout their lives and stifles the development prospects of their societies. Illiterate and poorly educated mothers are less able to care for their children. Low education levels and responsibilities for household work prevent women from finding productive employment or participating in public decision-making.

What will it take to improve girls' enrollments? Removing the social and economic obstacles that stop parents from sending their daughters to school is a priority. For many poor families the economic value of girls' work at home exceeds the perceived returns to schooling. Improving the accessibility of schools and their quality and affordability is also important.

Target 3.A
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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