Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Google Search Bar - UN Women

The auto-complete function on Google's search bar reveals some interesting things about how the average person perceives the world around them.

MDG3 - How is the world doing?

• 2countries out of 130 have achieved gender equality at all levels of education.
• 16.2%of ministerial-level positions are held by women (2010).
• 40% of wage-earning jobs in the non-agricultural sector were held by women in 2011.
• 1% of global agriculture credit goes to African women.

Millennium Development Goal

GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1. •All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Malala Yousafzai

When she was just 14 years old, Malala was wounded by masked gunmen who singled her out as she returned home in a school bus in Pakistan’s north-west Swat Valley. She was targeted by the Taliban after speaking out against atrocities committed under the regime in October 2012.