Progress of the World's Women 2002 Volume Two: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals - Softcover

Elson, Diane; Keklik, Hande

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912917709 ISBN 13: 9780912917702

Publisher: Kumarian Press, 2003

Synopsis

*Compares progress of women to the promises of the Millennium Development Goals
*Shows civil society’s efforts to promote gender equality
*Graphs out comprehensive and comparative data
*Recommends new techniques to track progress more clearly

This book explores the challenges of tracking and determining progress for woman relative to the commitments made to women in the Millennium Development Goals of 2000. It outlines goals, targets, and indicators using comparative data. It charts the share of female literacy, enrollment in education, wage employment, seats in government, and those living with HIV/AIDS. Finally it points out innovations in measuring and monitoring gender equality around the world.

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From the Publisher

Unique Features:
- Includes comprehensive and comparative data
- Shows the efforts to promote gender equality made by women at all levels of civil society
- Recommends new techniques to track progress more clearly

About the Author

Diane Elson is a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. She was coordinator of UNIFEM's Progress of the World’s Women 2000 and is an adviser to UNIFEM on gender responsive budgets. She is also a member of the UN MDG Task Force on Education and Gender

About this edition

• Publisher: Kumarian Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0912917709
• ISBN 13: 9780912917702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76