At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration and pledged to reach the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
Of the 68 million out-of-school primary-school-age children, 53 per cent are girls (UNESCO Data Centre 2010). Of the lower secondary out-of-school adolescents, 54 per cent are girls