Friday, 11/30/12

[4Zach]

• Gender Equality and Child Health
  
  • Gender Equality
    
    • Eliminate gender discrimination in primary and secondary schools by 2005 and in all areas by 2015
    • Problems are poverty, lack of education so they can't make money, and cultural issues.
    • The problems are common is Middle Eastern areas and islands near Australia.
    • Women are outnumbered in paid jobs in every developing country except the CIS.
    • They lack stable employment.
    • Not sure due to some countries.
  • Child Health
    
    • The mortality rate dropped 28% from 1990 to 2008.
    • Africa makes up 1/2 of the death rate.
    • Children die from the following things:
      
      • Malnutrition is about 33% of deaths.
      • Pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and AIDs make up 43%
    • Vietnam eliminated neonatal and maternal deaths.
    • Tetanus has gone down a lot.
    • Difficult areas are the sames as the gender equality.

• -show how the world has or has not made progress with your goal
• -success stories
• -Misc.