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Empowering Women

Millennium Developmental Goal for 2015

2015 Millennium Goals

End Poverty and World Hunger

Achieve Universal PrimaryEducation

Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Reduce Child Mortality

Improve Maternal Health

Combat HIV/AIDS , Malaria and other diseases

Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Develop a Global PartnershipFor Development

Gender EqualityStems from injustice related to human rights

and economic development.Defined by The United Nations Children’s

Fund (UNICEF) as “ leveling the playing field for girls and women by ensuring that all children have equal opportunity to develop their talents.”

To achieve gender equity women must have:

family and community support for female education.

education past elementary level.education for girls.

Empowerment involves developing confidence to:

Gain powerGain authorityGain influence over others

Empowering Women & EducationGirls’ primary school enrollment increase

more than boys’ in all developing region between 2000 and 2006.

Women often do not attend school because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities.

Women occupy almost 40% of all paid jobs outside agriculture.

Empowering Women GoalJob opportunities are openWomen need to seek position

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Empowering WomenOverall, women occupy almost 40% of all

paid jobs outside agriculture, compared to 35% in 1990.

Empowering Women ProblemWomen trapped in low paid, insecure

positions

Empowering Women2/3 of women in developing regions are an

unpaid family worker

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Source: United Nations. (2008). Millennium goals report 2008. Retrieved on March 10, 2010 from http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2008/MDG_Report_2008_En.pdf#page=20

Problems EverywhereGender-specific

occupations

Female dominated positions are characterized by: Inferior status Lower pay Poorer working

conditions

Quick Facts“Women have more access to employment

now than ever before. But they still earn one-third less than men.”

Quick Facts“In 2008, women held 18% of parliamentary

seats worldwide.”

United Nations Development Fund For Women (UNIFEM)

“Promotes women’s empowerment, rights and gender equality globally, and through 15 sub-regional and two national offices that support programs within and among individual countries.”

ReferencesUnited Nations. (2008). Goal 3: promote gender equity and empower women. Retrieved

on March 10, 2010 from http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/gender.shtml

United Nations Development Fund For Women. (2005). Retrieved on March 10, 2010 from http://www.unifem.org/about/fact_sheets.php?StoryID=259

Karen Hardin, B.S. RDDieticianHazel Forsythe, Ph.D. RDAssociate ProfessorMargaret Cook-Newell, Ph.D. RDLecturer

March, 2010

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Photographs : United Nations. (2008). Millennium goals 2015. Retrieved on March 10, 2010 from http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/gender.shtml