Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women

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4.1 HIV prevalence rate among population ages 15–49, 2004 56
4.2 Adolescent fertility rates by region, 1990–2000 59
5.1 Women’s time allocation in households with and without electricity,
1996 68
6.1 Distribution of landowners by sex in five Latin American countries,
various years 78
6.2 Form of acquisition of land ownership, by sex in six Latin American
countries 79
6.3 Status of legislation on women’s rights to land, housing, and property
in five Sub-Saharan African countries, as of 2004 81
7.1 Share of women in nonagricultural wage employment, by region,
1990 and 2002 90
7.2 Informal employment in nonagricultural employment, by sex and
region, 1994 and 2000 91
7.3 Female share in agricultural employment by region, 1990–95 to
1996–2001 92
8.1 Women’s political representation in selected federal countries, late
1990s 105
8.2 Share of women-held seats in national parliaments, 1990 and
2004 106
9.1 Percentage of women ages 15–49 who have experienced any violence
since age 15, latest available data 113
9.2 Estimated cost of violence against women, selected countries and
regions 115
9.3 Sector-level interventions to address gender-based violence 116
11.1 Estimated summary costs for promoting gender equality in Tajikistan,
2005–15 136
11.2 Estimated costs for promoting gender equality in Tajikistan by main
activities, 2005–15 136
A1.1 Country predictions by region for female to male gross primary
enrollment ratios, 2005 159
A1.2 Country predictions by region for female to male gross primary
enrollment ratios, 2015 159
A1.3 Country predictions by region for female to male gross secondary
enrollment ratios, 2005 160
A1.4 Country predictions by region for female to male gross secondary
enrollment ratios, 2015 160
A1.5 Country predictions by region for female to male gross tertiary
enrollment ratios, 2015 161
A1.6 Country predictions by region for ratio of literate females to males,
aged 15–24, 2015 161
A1.7 Female and male gross primary enrollment rates and ratios, 1990 and
2000, and projections for 2005 and 2015 162