Question 1

How has gender-based violence been addressed in the development field?

Accepted Answer

Gender-based violence has become increas

Question 2

The shift from a focus on women to one on gender was driven by the phenomenal success of two decades of development programs aimed at improving women's economic, political, and social positions.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Why is the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security considered a monumental achievement?

Accepted Answer

The adoption of Security Council Resolut

Question 4

What drove the change from a focus on women to one on gender in development programming?

Accepted Answer

A)  The fulfillment of earlier, albeit limited, feminist objectives 
B)  The need to empower men in feminist projects 
C)  The limited success in improving women's economic, political, and social positions 
D)  To counter the opposition of donor states to limited development objectives 
E)  To encourage more grassroots activism 
A)  The fulfillment of earlier, albeit limited, feminist objectives 
B)  The need to empower men in feminist projects 
C)  The limited success in improving women's economic, political, and social positions 
D)  To counter the opposition of donor states to limited development objectives 
E)  To encourage more grassroots activism

Question 5

What event adopted the gender mainstreaming theory of development as the central mechanism for ensuring gender equality?

Accepted Answer

A)  UN Decade of Women in Mexico City, 1980 
B)  UN Conference on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in Lagos, 1985 
C)  UN Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995 
D)  UN Millennium Development Goals in New York, 2000 
E)  UN Global Compact in New Delhi, 2005 
A)  UN Decade of Women in Mexico City, 1980 
B)  UN Conference on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in Lagos, 1985 
C)  UN Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995 
D)  UN Millennium Development Goals in New York, 2000 
E)  UN Global Compact in New Delhi, 2005

Question 6

Male empowerment is regarded as a key tool for challenging and transforming unequal political, economic, and social structures.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

How has approaches to development changed in relation to gender from the welfare approach to gender and development?

Accepted Answer

The concept of gender has evolved signif

Question 8

Why do some scholars question whether it is even possible to create development alliances among women from different parts of the Global North and South?

Accepted Answer

The idea of an alliance between women fr

Question 9

Why is the 1979 CEDAW a foundational document for recognizing that women's rights are human rights?

Accepted Answer

The foundation for a more comprehensive

Question 10

What is the implication of the use of the term feminicidio for the fight in Latin America against the killing of women?

Accepted Answer

Since the mid-1990s, violence against wo

Question 11

Why have international organizations argued that it is important to end early and forced marriages, and what has been gained from this?

Accepted Answer

International development organizations

Question 12

Empowerment requires greater attention to the impact of cultural differences, economic and political power, colonial histories, and gendered practices and relations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

How was the issue of overpopulation addressed as a "development" problem?

Accepted Answer

A)  To use tax incentives for smaller families 
B)  To draft legislation such as China's two child policy 
C)  To link small family size as a paternal issue 
D)  To include family planning campaigns in the public school system 
E)  To treat women as the focus of social control of fertility 
A)  To use tax incentives for smaller families 
B)  To draft legislation such as China's two child policy 
C)  To link small family size as a paternal issue 
D)  To include family planning campaigns in the public school system 
E)  To treat women as the focus of social control of fertility

Question 14

Why is it important to move beyond simplified targeted solutions for issues related to gender and development to broader systemic commitments?

Accepted Answer

Many strategies have and remain focused

Question 15

Mainstream institutions envision empowerment as a means for enhancing efficiency and productivity within the status quo.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The #metoo movement is an example of the need to challenge toxic masculine practices.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Compared to women and girls as key development issues, toxic patriarchal power and gender inequality has only emerged as an important developmental issue recently.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

What role does masculinity play in understanding the role of gender and development?

Accepted Answer

Key NGO programs have been inspired to a

Question 19

Why is essentializing women and girls an issue in international development?

Accepted Answer

When women are portrayed almost exclusiv

Question 20

What are some examples of Gender Lens Investing strategies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Investing loans in family business proposals 
B)  Making capital more available to women 
C)  Working with female factory workers to improve their skills 
D)  Creating corporate social responsibilities 
E)  Inviting scholars to improve women's working conditions 
A)  Investing loans in family business proposals 
B)  Making capital more available to women 
C)  Working with female factory workers to improve their skills 
D)  Creating corporate social responsibilities 
E)  Inviting scholars to improve women's working conditions

Exam 6: Gender and Development: Theoretical Insights and International Commitments

How has gender-based violence been addressed in the development field?

The shift from a focus on women to one on gender was driven by the phenomenal success of two decades of development programs aimed at improving women's economic, political, and social positions.

Why is the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security considered a monumental achievement?

What drove the change from a focus on women to one on gender in development programming?

What event adopted the gender mainstreaming theory of development as the central mechanism for ensuring gender equality?

Male empowerment is regarded as a key tool for challenging and transforming unequal political, economic, and social structures.

How has approaches to development changed in relation to gender from the welfare approach to gender and development?

Why do some scholars question whether it is even possible to create development alliances among women from different parts of the Global North and South?

Why is the 1979 CEDAW a foundational document for recognizing that women's rights are human rights?

What is the implication of the use of the term feminicidio for the fight in Latin America against the killing of women?

Why have international organizations argued that it is important to end early and forced marriages, and what has been gained from this?

Empowerment requires greater attention to the impact of cultural differences, economic and political power, colonial histories, and gendered practices and relations.

How was the issue of overpopulation addressed as a "development" problem?

Why is it important to move beyond simplified targeted solutions for issues related to gender and development to broader systemic commitments?

Mainstream institutions envision empowerment as a means for enhancing efficiency and productivity within the status quo.

The #metoo movement is an example of the need to challenge toxic masculine practices.

Compared to women and girls as key development issues, toxic patriarchal power and gender inequality has only emerged as an important developmental issue recently.

What role does masculinity play in understanding the role of gender and development?

Why is essentializing women and girls an issue in international development?

What are some examples of Gender Lens Investing strategies?

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Theories of Development Economics

The Critical Political Economy of Development

Post-development and Alternatives to Development

Globalization and Development

State of the State: Does the State Have a Role in Development?

National Development Agencies and Bilateral Aid

The International Financial Institutions

The United Nations and Multilateral Actors in Development

Private Enterprise and Development

Civil Society and Development

China and the Emerging Economies

Debt and Development

Free Trade, Fair Trade, and South-South Trade

Democracy

Climate Change, Environment, and Development

Rural Development

Urban Development: Cities in the Global South

Development and Health

Conflict and Development

Refugees and International Development Policy and Practice

Indigenous Community Economic Resilience

Culture and Development

Measuring and Evaluating Poverty

Inequality and Social Policy

Planning and Appraising Development Projects

Humanitarian Assistance and Intervention

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