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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
>>Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development

Promote gender equality and empower women


TARGETS
INDICATORS
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015.
  • Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
  • Ratio of literate women to men of 15- to 24-year-olds
  • Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
  • Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament


See ADB's Key Indicators 2003 for the most recent status of this goal in ADB's developing member countries.

For information on ADB's work on gender and development, visit the gender and development website.
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