Report: Toward Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women

This report summarizes "Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women," the 2005 report of the U.N. Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality.

Key recommendations include strengthening girls' secondary education, guaranteeing reproductive health and rights, easing women's time burdens, guaranteeing property and inheritance rights, reducing gender inequality in employment, increasing women's political participation, and combating violence against women.

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Brief: Violence Against Women Must Stop

This brief summarizes the chapter on violence against women in "Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women," the 2005 report of the U.N. Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality.

The brief discusses the global prevalence and costs of violence against women and lays out potential interventions at national and global levels.

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Millennium Project

ICRW is working to ensure that the overall MDG framework and the specific plan for achieving the third goal — gender equality and the empowerment of women — is based on solid research and informed by women’s abilities and needs.

ICRW staff participated in the U.N. Millennium Project’s Task Force on Education and Gender Equality and led the writing of the task force report on gender: Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women.

ICRW has written three briefs about specific topics covered in the task force report:

(1) Violence Against Women Must Stop;

(2) Infrastructure Shortfalls Cost Poor Women Both Time and Opportunity; and

(3) Property Ownership for Women Enriches, Empowers and Protects.

To ensure that the recommendations of this report reach key policy and program audiences within the United States and abroad, ICRW continues to work through the Millennium Project and other efforts to disseminate its findings to maximize the impact of its work and recommendations.

For more information, please contact Aslihan Kes.