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Short Summary
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| Title |
Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and
Empowering Women. Task Force on Education and Gender Equality |
| Author |
Grown, C., Rao Gupta, G. and Kes, A. |
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January 2005 |
| Publisher |
Earthscan, London. |
| Donor |
United Nations (UN) Millennium Project |
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Short Summary |
How can the global community achieve the third
Millennium Development Goal of gender equality and the empowerment
of women? To be empowered women must have equal capabilities such
as education and health, and equal access to resources and opportunities
such as land and employment. However they must also have the agency
to use these capabilities and resources to make strategic choices.
This report, prepared by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education
and Gender Equality, identifies strategic priorities and practical
actions for achieving women's empowerment by 2015. These include:
strengthening opportunities for post-primary education for girls;
investing in infrastructure to reduce women's and girls' time burdens;
guaranteeing women's and girls' property and inheritance rights; increasing
women's share of seats in national parliaments and local governmental
bodies; and combating violence against girls and women. Various countries,
communities and institutions have implemented different combinations
of these actions and shown good results. The problem is not a lack
of practical ways to empower women but rather a lack of change on
a large and deep enough scale to bring about transformation in the
way societies conceive of and organise men and women's roles, responsibilities
and control over resources. Essential for this kind of transformation
are the mobilisation of a large group people committed to the vision
of a gender equitable society; the technical capacity to implement
change; institutional structures and processes to support the transformation;
and adequate financial resources. |
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