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| 2 of 3 The proportion of male respondents in Bangladesh who indicate that university education for boys should be prioritized over that of girls |
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| Promote gender equality and empower women |
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| Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 |
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Examining social attitudes on specific issues, such as access to education and income-generating opportunities for women, reveals even more clearly the extent of gender discrimination and how it compares across countries. The World Values Survey reveals that an alarmingly large number of men - who, as this report will show, often hold power in the household allocation of resources for vital services such as education and health care - believe that university education is more important for a boy than for a girl.
Around two thirds of male respondents in Bangladesh indicate that university education for boys should be prioritized over that of girls – an opinion echoed by around one third or |
more of male respondents from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mexico and Uganda, among others. In some countries, men’s opinions on this particular issue were less discriminatory, with only 1 out of every 10 male respondents in China and less than 1 out of every 13 male respondents in the United States holding the same view. |
| UNICEF calculations are based on data derived from the World Values Survey, Round 4 (1999–2004). Data for each country and territory in the regional
aggregates are for the latest year available in the period specified. The following countries and territories are included in the regional aggregates cited:
Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia. Latin America and Caribbean: Argentina,
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Chile, Mexico, Peru. South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan. East Asia and Pacific: China, Indonesia, Philippines, Republic
of Korea, Singapore, Viet Nam. Sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania. Countries in transition: Albania, Belarus,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Republic of
Moldova, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey. Industrialized countries: Austria,
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United
Kingdom, United States. Notes on the methodology employed can be found in the References section, page 88. |
| Data: World Values Survey, www.worldvaluessurvey.org, accessed June 2006. |
| Source: UNICEF, The State of The World’s Children 2007, New York, 2006. |
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