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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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Employees in Non-Agricultural Wage Employment Who Are Women
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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
Empowering Women
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