Gender Flashcards
(10 cards)
What did Boserup say?
Providing girls with one extra year of education boosts their eventual wages by 10-20%
What did Nikki van Der Gaag say?
Progress for women is being threatened as economic globalisation has led to an increase in trafficking of women and exploitation in new industries
What did Leonard say?
TNCs exploit women in the workplace rather than giving them training equal pay and job security which they offer to male workers instead.
2004 Bangladesh
Around 80% of garment workers are women, often producing clothes for big western labels and working in appalling conditions.
Kandahar, Afghanistan (2008)
A group of 16 year old girls were sprayed with acid by two men passing on a motorcycle because they were going to school.
Aids in Africa
25 million people gave aids in Africa and 57% are women
Zambia
In Zambia, women are three times for likely to be infected with the HIV virus than men.
Africa genital mutilation…
In Africa, it is estimated that 6000 girls every day are subjects to genital cutting or female circumcision in order to enhance their future husbands enjoyment of sex
What is FGM?
Female genital mutilation - illegal in all countries but practised in some
Male stream sociology?
Word coined by feminists to illustrate how most sociology is conducted and researched from a male point of view, assuming that this research can be applied to women too.
