Promote gender equality and empower women (MDGs’ progress & related research from PIK)

This blog-post shows positive effects and remained concerns of one of the MDGs’ eight goals, ‘Promote gender equality and empower women’ (1). This also includes research from Pamoja Imani Kenya which relate to the concerns.

MDG #3

Promote gender equality and empower women

Progress

• Gender parity is closest to being achieved at the primary level.

Concerns

• Only 2 out of 130 countries have achieved that target at all levels of education.

• 40 out of 100 wage-earning jobs in the non-agricultural sector are held by women.

​Related research from PIK

• All mother members except mothers having any jobs work at farms but under very low wage.

• Many mother members who tried to start business according to their valuable skills (such as sewing, knitting) are finding difficulties.

1  United Nations, Millennium Development Goals website: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/; United Nations Development Programme website:  http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/mdgoverview.html