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The last 25 years have witnessed massive progress in educational enrolment as gender gaps have closed in most countries around the world, according to 2012 World Development Report (WDR).
Again, giant strides have been made in secondary education with ironically reverse effects in regions such as Latin America, where girls now have outnumbered boys.
Life’s expectancy for women has also increased since 1980 and more than half a billion women have entered the global labour force.
For women and girls in developing countries, much has changed for the better in the past quarter century. Take female life expectancy at birth for example, which increased dramatically in developing countries (by 20 to 25 years in most regions in the past 50 years) to reach 71 years globally in 2007 (compared with 67 for men). Women now outlive men in every region of the world, the report said.
The changes, the report indicated, were much faster than when today’s rich countries were poorer. It took more than 100 years for the number of children born to a woman in the United States to decline from six to three; the same decline took just over 35 years in India and less than 20 in Iran.
The World Bank Group released the World Development Report (WDR) 2012: Gender Equality and Development in Accra.
Source: AllAfrica.com
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