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GOAL 3:
PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
Target 3.A:
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
The developing countries as a whole have achieved the target to eliminate gender disparity in primary, secondary and tertiary education.
Globally, about three quarters of working-age men participate in the labour force, compared to half of working-age women.
Women make up 41 per cent of paid workers outside of agriculture, an increase from 35 per cent in 1990.
The average proportion of women in parliament has nearly doubled over the past 20 years.
Women continue to experience significant gaps in terms of poverty, labour market and wages, as well as participation in private and public decision-making.
