1. Millennium Developmental Goal for 2015
Empowering Women
Millennium Developmental Goal for 2015

2. 2015 Millennium Goals
End Poverty and World Hunger Achieve Universal Primary Education Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Reduce Child Mortality
Improve Maternal Health Combat HIV/AIDS , Malaria and other diseases Ensure Environmental Sustainability Develop a Global Partnership For Development
The United Nations has identified eight Millennium Goals.
These eight goals were agreed upon by all the countries and world leaders with a target date of 2015.

3. Gender Equality
Stems from injustice related to human rights and economic development.
Defined by The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as “ leveling the playing field for girls and women by ensuring that all children have equal opportunity to develop their talents.”

4. To achieve gender equity women must have:
family and community support for female education.
education past elementary level.
education for girls.
When you educate a female you are educating another generation. Women teach their children.

5. Empowerment involves developing confidence to:
Gain power
Gain authority
Gain influence over others
Individuals build their strength or become empowered spiritually, politically, socially, and economically by learning to gather information and resources, make decisions, and evaluate those decisions for improvement.

6. Empowering Women & Education
Girls’ primary school enrollment increase more than boys’ in all developing region between 2000 and 2006.
Women often do not attend school because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities.
Women occupy almost 40% of all paid jobs outside agriculture.

7. Empowering Women Goal Job opportunities are open
Women need to seek position

10. Empowering Women
Overall, women occupy almost 40% of all paid jobs outside agriculture, compared to 35% in 1990.
Women have more income-earning opportunities than ever before.

11. Empowering Women Problem
Women trapped in low paid, insecure positions

12. Empowering Women
2/3 of women in developing regions are an unpaid family worker

13. Empowering Women Two main regions Southern Asia Sub-Saharan Africa
Source: United Nations. (2008). Millennium goals report Retrieved on March 10, 2010 from

14. Problems Everywhere Gender-specific occupations
Female dominated positions are characterized by:
Inferior status
Lower pay
Poorer working conditions

15. Quick Facts
“Women have more access to employment now than ever before. But they still earn one-third less than men.”

16. Quick Facts
“In 2008, women held 18% of parliamentary seats worldwide.”

17. United Nations Development Fund For Women (UNIFEM)
“Promotes women’s empowerment, rights and gender equality globally, and through 15 sub-regional and two national offices that support programs within and among individual countries.”

18. References
United Nations. (2008). Goal 3: promote gender equity and empower women. Retrieved on March 10, 2010 from
United Nations Development Fund For Women. (2005). Retrieved on March 10, 2010 from
Photographs : United Nations. (2008). Millennium goals Retrieved on March 10, from
Karen Hardin, B.S. RD
Dietician
Hazel Forsythe, Ph.D. RD
Associate Professor
Margaret Cook-Newell, Ph.D. RD
Lecturer
March, 2010
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