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ACHIEVING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 3:

ELIMINATION OF GENDER DISPARITY IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION. ACHIEVING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 3:. To empower women economically and socially through education: increase the number of girls in Ghana attaining a minimum of senior high school education by 10% by 2015 and by 50% by 2024.

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ACHIEVING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 3:

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  1. ELIMINATION OF GENDER DISPARITY IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACHIEVING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 3:

  2. To empower women economically and socially through education: increase the number of girls in Ghana attaining a minimum of senior high school education by 10% by 2015 and by 50% by 2024. OBJECTIVE

  3. This objective is linked to MDG 3 and is aimed at achieving the millennium development goal 3 in Ghana in the short term and in the long term empower women and girls because it is believed that education is life; and in educating a woman you give that woman a life worth living, a dignified life. Objective explained

  4. GIRLS OF ST. ROSE’S SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, AKWATIA, GHANA

  5. Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 • For girls in some regions, education remains elusive • Poverty is a major barrier to education, especially among older girls • In every developing region except the CIS, men outnumber women in paid employment • Women are largely relegated to more vulnerable forms of employment • Women are over-represented in informal employment, with its lack of benefits and security • Top-level jobs still go to men — to an overwhelming degree • Women are slowly rising to political power, but mainly when boosted by quotas and other special measures MDG 3 EXPANDED

  6. 3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary and secondary education in Ghana – see excel sheet and graph below. The data below shows that over a period of 40 years, the proportion of girls to boys in primary and secondary school is still not 1:1. Boys currently outnumber girls in school. Monitoring MDG 3 IN GHANA

  7. QUICK FACTS ON GHANA

  8. The movie below shows the opening of a ceremony to encourage girls to stay in school. Organized by alumni of the school Shows students from St. Rose’s Senior High School, Ghana. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECtzJySnROw Movie

  9. CELEBRATING girl child education

  10. UN http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/gender.shtml World Bank / UN http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?q=girl+education+in+ghana&d=WDI&f=Indicator_Code%3aSE.ENR.PRSC.FM.ZS%3bCountry_Code%3aGHA Picture on first page only: http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACR829.pdf All other pictures and video are mine. SOURCES OF INFORMATION

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