Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

• Of the 1.3 billion people living in poverty around the world, 70% are women. (Source: World Revolution)
• Women do about 66% of the world’s work in return for less than 5% of its income. (Source: Women’s International Network)
• In the least developed countries nearly twice as many women over age 15 are illiterate compared to men. (Source: UNFPA)
• Two-thirds of children denied primary education are girls, and 75% of the world’s 876 million illiterate adults are women. (Source: AskWoman)
• Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, produce half of the world’s food, and yet earn only 10% of the world’s income and own less than 1% of the world’s property. (Source :World Development Indicators, 1997, Womankind Worldwide)

3. Women Make A Difference (WMD)