United Nations Millennium Development Goals
MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
GOAL 3:
PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
- For girls in some regions, education remains elusive
- Poverty is a major barrier to education, especially among older girls
- In every developing region except the CIS, men outnumber women in paid employment
- Women are largely relegated to more vulnerable forms of employment
- Women are over-represented in informal employment, with its lack of benefits and security
- Top-level jobs still go to men — to an overwhelming degree
- Women are slowly rising to political power, but mainly when boosted by quotas and other special measures
