In ten years, China will have more boys than girls. Skewe
Could action on gender help jumpstart efforts to make the Millennium Development Goals deadline by 2015? The third goal already explicitly aims to “promote gender equality and empower women” (MDG3), but gender has a direct and profound impact on several other targets, too.
According to the OECD Development Centre’s Social Institutions Gender Index, the variables include violence against women, acceptance of polygamy and women’s ownership rights, with 12 indicators in total.
The Index shows that countries in which societies strongly discriminate against women tend to score poorly in several of the Millennium Development Goals.
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