Women's Leadership & Gender Issues
A Year of Protests, Then Counter-Reactions
Global Art & Culture
100

Youngest-ever Noble Laureate? 

Malala Yousafzai

100

Street Demonstrations centered in Tahir Square in Cairo, Egypt

Arab Spring

100

Large-scale Indian film-making city 

Bollywood

200

Patriarchal System of selling girls to their husbands 

Dowry System

200

Protests in New York group opposing government spending cuts

Occupy Wall Street 

200

Sport that connected the world in competition, but that was often a site of discrimination 

Soccer

300

A Chinese policy that further imbalanced the gender ratio

One Child Policy

300

Protester who sparked the Arab Spring, through the process of self-immolation

Mohamed Bouazizi

300

A conceptual artist who promoted existentialism in France

Yves Klein

400

Two countries that had a women leader by 2016

Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Turkey, Finland, Norway, Germany, Poland, India, Indonesia, Australia, South Korea

400

One country with a leadership change 

Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia

400

Xenophobia definition

prejudice against foreigners

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