Tuesday, World Bank released the 2012 World Development Report (WDR) on Gender Equality and Development. With few specific mentions of  , women in the country appear to be doing better than many other countries discussed. This includes areas like education, health, life expectancy, and willingness to work part time. Participation in the In 1979, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the (CEDAW). Early on, the report credits the , inspired by CEDAW, with dealing with inequality issues such as discrimination based on sex, marital status, and pregnancy or potential pregnancy. Current Australian is one of several women who was not in office in 1990 While girls score slightly lower than boys on the mathematics test at around 510 to 520 on the mean score, girls outperformed boys in literacy approximately 530 to 500. The report attributes overall patterns of girls outperforming boys at literacy and boys outperforming girls at maths to gender expectations reinforced in textbooks. It sites current examples of this in Australia and  . On the maths test, Australian girls slightly outperformed girls from Estonia, Belgium and Germany, while girls from New Zealand, Macau, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Finland, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore outperformed their Australian counterparts. On the literacy test, Australian girls slightly outperformed their Norwegian and Polish counterparts. The only countries sampled outperforming Australian girls at literacy were Japan, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Finland and South Korea. From 1991 to 2009, the for Australian females in primary and secondary school declined by 1\% and 2\% respectively. For tertiary education, there was a 52\% increase for females. The average life expectancy of Australian women went from 80 in 1990 to 84 in 2009. During the same period, male life expectancy grew from 74 years to 79 years.  had 6\% women in 1990 and grew to 25\% women in 2010.
Tuesday, World Bank released the 2012 World Development Report (WDR) on Gender Equality and Development. With few specific mentions of Australia , women in the country appear to be doing better than many other countries discussed. This includes areas like education, health, life expectancy, and willingness to work part time. Participation in the In 1979, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the (CEDAW). Early on, the report credits the , inspired by CEDAW, with dealing with inequality issues such as discrimination based on sex, marital status, and pregnancy or potential pregnancy. Current Australian is one of several women who was not in office in 1990 While girls score slightly lower than boys on the mathematics test at around 510 to 520 on the mean score, girls outperformed boys in literacy approximately 530 to 500. The report attributes overall patterns of girls outperforming boys at literacy and boys outperforming girls at maths to gender expectations reinforced in textbooks. It sites current examples of this in Australia and Hong Kong . On the maths test, Australian girls slightly outperformed girls from Estonia, Belgium and Germany, while girls from New Zealand, Macau, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Finland, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore outperformed their Australian counterparts. On the literacy test, Australian girls slightly outperformed their Norwegian and Polish counterparts. The only countries sampled outperforming Australian girls at literacy were Japan, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Finland and South Korea. From 1991 to 2009, the for Australian females in primary and secondary school declined by 1\% and 2\% respectively. For tertiary education, there was a 52\% increase for females. The average life expectancy of Australian women went from 80 in 1990 to 84 in 2009. During the same period, male life expectancy grew from 74 years to 79 years. Australia's Parliament had 6\% women in 1990 and grew to 25\% women in 2010.
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