At the beginning of class we started going over the U.S. millennium goals again.
Achieving Child Education
- Target is to get all kids around the world to go to primary school
- 1999 it was 82% in 2010 it was 90%
- Still have a long way to go to reach school
- Still 57 million people not attending
- Most people who are not enrolled are from other countries
- 61% of the 57 million people who do not attend school are women
- Women gained rights in 1921
- Probably will not make the goal by 2015
Promote Gender Equality
- Main target is to provide equality and make women just as powerful as men
- It is improving
- Women working in jobs that are not of agriculture is 409%
- The world has done a lot to achieve these goals
- Certain places are making certain arrangements to keep girls in school and stuff of that sort
- 18% of government positions are women
- Compared to the 14% of government positions that African women uphold
Improving Maternal Health
- Maternal health is taking care of the pregnant mom and the baby
- Target one is to improve this so that less children die
- They hope to reduce this by 3/4
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