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Gender equality is key to achieving the MDGs
- Source: UN Chronicle, Volume 44, Issue 4, Dec 2007, p. 25 - 27
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- 31 Dec 2007
Abstract
One of nine children growing up from a small town in an African country, Meaza was told: “Oh, you’re so smart and have so much potential, it’s too bad you’re not a boy.” But her mother, who was illiterate, believed her children deserved better. “When I think of my mother, I think about how women are prevented from reaching their potential”, she says. “If you’re illiterate and send five kids to college, you must have a lot of unused potential.” Today, Meaza is a lawyer and a leader in legal advocacy to promote women’s rights.
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