Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

UNDP works on pro-women's policy advice, capacity development, and supports projects for gender equality in collaboration with UNIFEM.

Indicators

Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

9. Ratio of Girls to Boys in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Education (UNESCO) 10. Ratio of Literate Women to Men 15-24 years old (UNESCO) 11. Share of Women in Wage Employment in the Non-Agricultural Sector (ILO) 12. Proportion of Seats Held by Women in National Parliaments (IPU)

UNDP's work

• UNDP / Japan Women in Development Fund
• Gender and the MDGs

More information

• Millennium Project Report: Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women
• Millennium Campaign's page on Goal 3