Gender Inequality
What is gender equality?
giving men and women equal opportunities
What is gender-based violence?
Gender-based violence refers to the violence directed against a person because of that person's gender or violence that affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately.
Who was the youngest person to receive a Nobel peace prize for education?
Malala Yousafzai
Who was the first woman to get a Nobel prize in physics as well as chemistry?
Marie Sklodowska Curie
Who was the only female athlete to be featured in Forbes top 100 highest-paid athletes (2018)?
Serena Williams
Which of the following have the highest percentage of women participation?
Labour force
Which of these is NOT a cause of gender-based violence?
The victim allows themselves to be abused.
Who was the first female scientist?
Marie curie
Who was the first african american woman to reach space?
Mae Jemison
A sport where gender discrimination is the greatest?
football
How many countries give women equal legal work rights as men?
6
What is the most common form of gender-based violence?
Intimate partner violence.
Which was the first country to give women the right to vote?
New Zealand
Who said "Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra"?
Sophie Germain
In the 1976 Montreal games, this athlete was the first ever to achieve a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. (for both men and women) Who is it?
Nadia Comaneci
How many years will it take to close the gender gap?
108
Which country in the world has the highest rate of gender-based violence?
South Africa
Who pioneered women's education in western India during the British Raj?
Savitribai Phule
Who developed a pregnancy-test like device that allows women to test themselves for cervical cancer at home and is in the list of top three women in tech by Forbes?
Chantelle Bell
Women participated for the first time ever in Olympic sport - the Paris games, which introduced lawn tennis and golf as exclusive events for women players. In which year did it take place?
1900
Which country has the highest percentage of women in parliament?
Rwanda
What is the number of women who have been subjected to domestic violence?
243 million women and girls (aged between 15-49)
Who was the first woman to graduate with down syndrome?
Giusi Spagnolo
Who is considered to be the first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace
A single male football player earns an annual salary of approximately $84 million inclusive of bonuses. what is the approximate combined annual salary of 1693 female football players?
$42 million