Study

Gender Equality

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  • TRUE or FALSE? An estimated 650 million girls and women alive today were married before their 18th birthday.
    TRUE
  • TRUE OR FALSE? In 2021, women earn 52 cents for every dollar earned by men.
    FALSE: 82 CENTS (Source:https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap)
  • The average difference in earnings between women and men who are working.
    (GENDER) WAGE GAP/PAY GAP
  • Only … per cent of all national parliamentarians are women. A)18 B)24 C)32
    24 (Women continue to be underrepresented in politics. In national parliaments, on average only 24 per cent of seats were occupied by women as of November 2018)
  • In … countries women are not allowed to do the same jobs as men. A)100 B)18 C)57
    100
  • The term in which women come home from work to more work such as cooking, laundry, childcare.
    SECOND SHIFT
  • The invisible barrier that stops women’s advancement to the top levels of an organization.
    GLASS CEILING
  • Socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people.
    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
  • 150 years ago women could not...
    VOTE, GET DIVORCED, OWN PROPERTY, GET PROPER EDUCATION, GET PAID THE SAME AS MEN ETC.
  • An over-generalized belief about a particular category of people.
    STERESOTYPE
  • "Men are strong and do all the work." is an example of...
    STEREOTYPE
  • Someone who earns money to support a family.
    BREADWINNER
  • The term which refers to the unequal treatment between men and women.
    GENDER INEQUALITY/GENDER STRATIFICATION/GENDER DISCRIMINATION
  • Women account for … % of the world’s illiterate people. A)29 B)67 C)56
    %67
  • The first country in the world in which all women are given the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
    NEW ZEALAND
  • A social system in which females hold the primary power positions in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.
    MATRIARCHY / MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY
  • In which country were women first allowed to vote in 2015?
    SAUDI ARABIA
  • Less than ....% of the world's landholders are women. A)5 B)15 C)20
    20