Progress of the World's Women 2002 Volume Two: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

*Compares progress of women to the promises of the Millennium Development Goals
*Shows civil society’s efforts to promote gender equality
*Graphs out comprehensive and comparative data
*Recommends new techniques to track progress more clearly

This book explores the challenges of tracking and determining progress for woman relative to the commitments made to women in the Millennium Development Goals of 2000. It outlines goals, targets, and indicators using comparative data. It charts the share of female literacy, enrollment in education, wage employment, seats in government, and those living with HIV/AIDS. Finally it points out innovations in measuring and monitoring gender equality around the world.