At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the …

mortality in parts of the developing world, most notably South Asia, China, West Asia, and parts of North Africa (Sen, 1989; Sen … exacting on women in these parts of the world. All these estimates 'missing women' were based on demographic information of the … Population Division of the sex ratio in the world and in the regions where males outnumber females. These estimates suggest that …