In which country were women first allowed to vote in 2015?
Morocco
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Chile
Emmeline Pankhurst
She is best remembered for organizing the UK suffragette movement and helping women win the suffering right to vote.
The first country in the world in which all women are given the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
Germany
New Zealand
Singapore
England
An over-generalized belief about a particular category of people.
stereotype
Matriarchy / Matriarchal society
A social system in which females hold the primary power positions in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.
Around 650 million women alive today were married as children.
False
True
She is a UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador speaking for the rights of women and in favor of gender equality.
Emma Watson
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, she rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a white passenger, once the "white" section was filled.
Rosa Parks
Globally, women are paid _____ less than men for comparable work, across all regions and sectors.
14%
44%
24%
34%
Either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.
gender
A social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority and control of property.
Patriarchy / Patriarchal society
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady".
Women account for_____ of the world’s illiterate people.
67%
29%
32%
48%
What is women's suffrage?
The right of women to vote in elections.
Women couldn't vote before 1893.
True
False
150 years ago women could NOT...
vote, stand in parliament, receive proper medical attention, own property, get divorced, get paid the same as men, get a proper educations...
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