The Millennium Goal 3 Promote Gender Equality And...

3.0 Statement of Findings This section of the report will highlight some background information on the Millennium Goal 3: ‘To Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women’. It will also look at the impacts and consequences of any issues relating to this on society and the environment in Australia and The Democratic Republic of Congo (refer to as DRC). 3.1 Background to Millennium Development Goal 3: ‘To Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women’. 3.1 The focus goal of the report is Millennium Development Goal 3: ‘To Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women’. Information about this goal: The Millennium Development Goal 3 relates to giving women the same opportunities in life, and equal access into education, politics and the†¦show more content†¦The way to improve gender equality in the DRC is to improve each of the following aspects: Women’s education Education for girls is the best investment a country can make. Once you educate women they have fewer kids, earn more and put more back into their families health (in-text referencing). Current statistics show that 7.3 million children are not in school in the DRC and 52.7% of those children are females (in-text referencing). This is due to community beliefs and such harmful practices as child marriage and early pregnancy continue to tie girls to the home, doing daily chores, rather than encouraging them to go to school (in-text referencing). A strategic way to improve this issue is to enforce the current government to place education laws in the DRC such as the contemporary laws in Australia. Equal representation in parliament Political representation for women is incredibly low, with over 3,562,742,960 billion women in the world today (7:32pm 30/10/14) there is simply not enough women in power locally or internationally (in-text referencing). World-wide, women make up approximately 15% of the worlds elected politicians which is a main contributor for why females are the poorest of the poor (in-text referencing). This is due to minority representation within governments around the