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INEQUALITIES & THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA - GENDER

UNRISD - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

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*Income inequalities between and within countries have worsened in recent decades. Gender inequalities are narrowing at a snail's pace.

*Latest figures suggest that despite the narrowing of gender-based inequalities

in terms of school enrolment, the average shortfall of women's earnings compared to men's was 22.9% in 2008-9. This marks a small improvement over the gap of 26.2% observed in 1995.

*Social indicators such as enrolment in secondary and tertiary education, access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and maternal mortality all display large within-country inequalities when gender, region, and ethnicity/caste are taken into account.