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Gender equality is key to achieving the MDGs: women and girls are central to development.(Millennium Development Goals )

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.

Solutions to gender disparities depend on finding ways to enable women and girls, as well as men and boys, to realize their full potential. While the ...

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