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Gender Equality and Child Health

Gender Equality and Child Health. By: Preston Burris Andrew Jones Brad Brue. Gender Equality. Target: to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015. Goal: To promote gender equality and empower women.

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Gender Equality and Child Health

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  1. Gender Equality and Child Health By: Preston Burris Andrew Jones Brad Brue

  2. Gender Equality • Target: to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015. • Goal: To promote gender equality and empower women

  3. Gender Equality Cont’d • It is a goal because many women don’t have the same rights as men, or as good of access to education. • The only place in the world where employed men don’t outnumber employed women is the Commonwealth of Independent States, a regional organization including former Soviet Republics.

  4. Ratio of boys out of school compared to girls Secondary School age Primary school age

  5. Progress • Women paid outside of the agricultural sector is steadily increasing and has reached 41 percent in 2008. • The rate at which unemployment is increasing is slowing. • Many women are starting to get in to political positions.

  6. Successes • Simone de Beauvoir’s book “Le Deuxième Sexe (1949; The Second Sex) was a worldwide best-seller and raised awareness for women’s rights. • In sub-Saharan Africa the parliamentary elections were held and 29 percent of the seats went to women.

  7. Child Health • The goal is to reduce child deaths by 2/3’s between 1990 and 2015. The want children to get better care so that they can have a chance at life. • Millions of children die each year of pneumonia, diarrhoea and bad nutrition.

  8. Child Health • Child mortalities have dropped by 28 percent since 1990. About 100 deaths per 1000 live births now only 72 deaths per 1000 births.

  9. Child Health • The poorest countries like Bangladesh, Bolivia, Eritrea, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malawi, Mongolia and Nepal have decreased their under 5 mortality rate by 4.5 percent annually. • Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Niger have seen reductions of 100 per 1000 live births since 1990.

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