Exam 9: Culture and Gender

The family type absolute ______ family has no precise inheritance rules,no marriage between children of brothers,and spouses are selected by the individual.

The Gender Inequality Index (GII)was created at the United Nations as a measure of all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Today,more women enroll in higher education than men in ______ countries.

In sub-Saharan Africa,only ______ of pregnant women receive adequate care during childbirth.

Discuss the education measurement of the World Economic Forum study.

Give examples of the status of women in different cultures.

______ countries have some sort of female quota for political representation.

One of the top five highest scoring countries on the 2014 Human Development Index is ______.

Discuss the changes in considering sex and gender from antiquity to the present day.

The United States extended voting rights to women over 25 years before New Zealand and Australia.

Discuss the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI)and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM).

Discuss three different family types.

Discuss the woman's language of Nushu.

The term used to refer to the biological features based on chromosomal evidence that distinguish males from females is ______.

The World Economic Forum study shows that empowering women means a less efficient use of a nation's human resources.

Name and briefly describe the United Nations gender-related studies.

Discuss the political participation measurement of the World Economic Forum study.

Discuss gender issues in Nordic countries.

Worldwide,100% of the education gap between women and men has been closed.

In Africa,______'s constitution bars discrimination based on gender,marital status,sexual orientation,and pregnancy.