Feminine Health
Gender
Equality
Equality
Access to education
Safety
100
Why does women's health research matter?
A) Promote more inclusion.
B) Treatment for men and women differ, it could help avoid wrong diagnostics.
C) Women are more likely to catch diseases than men.
D) Women's lifespans are decreasing.
B) Treatment for men and women differ, it could help avoid wrong diagnostics.
Often, women will react differently to sickness, diseases and chronic conditions. Since most medical research has been done on white males, women's health problems frequently get misdiagnosed. It is also worth noting that ethnic minorities also face this issue.
"Women experience distinct symptoms and react differently to diseases than men, like heart disease. These differences range from the way our bodies react to treatments"
“Why Women’s Health.” BC Women's Hospital + Health Center, Accessed on 23 Nov. 2024, http://www.bcwomens.ca/health-info/girls-women-in-bc/why-womens-health#:~:text=Research%20continually%20shows%20that%20women's,health%20care%20impact%20women%20differently.
100
Is this statement True or False:
The Taliban forces women to stay in their homes.
True.
Members of this organization confine by force their wives and daughters.
"How can the world learn to live with the Taliban’s abuses- Afghan women being largely confined to their homes, losing their voice, their personhood, their education, their dreams, and contributions to their communities."
Barr, Heather. “The Taliban and Global Backlash Against Women’s Rights.” Human Rights Watch, 6 Feb. 2024. https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/06/taliban-and-global-backlash-against-womens-rights
100
In Latin America, women are prohibited from attending higher education courses (college, university). Is this statement True or False?
False.
Women are the driving students in higher education fields in South America. In 1993, women's enrollment in school was superior to men's.
"More than 6 out of 10 women in Latin America and the Caribbean go to college today compared to less than half of men."
Willige, Andrea. "This Is How Latin American Women Came to Be More Educated than Men.” World Economic Forum, 14 Apr. 2023, https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/04/women-s-education-gender-gap-latin-america/#:~:text=There's%20been%20a%20huge%20transition,happened%20in%20the%20European%20Union
100
In South Africa, feminicide (murdering a woman on the basis of gender discrimination) happens more than half of the time by their romantic partner. Is this statement True or False?
True.
In South Africa, about 60% of feminicides are done by a lover. In some cases, women get sexually assaulted before being murdered.
"Intimate partner femicides now account for 60.1% of all femicides, and 1 in 6 women murdered showed evidence of sexual violence."
“South Africa’s Femicide Crisis Persists: New Report Highlights Increase in Intimate Partner Femicide Violence and Declining Convictions.” South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), 9 Oct. 2024. https://www.samrc.ac.za/press-releases/south-africas-femicide-crisis-persists-new-report-highlights-increase-intimate
200
In which of these countries is the pill free?
A) Russia
B) China
C) Egypt
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
Beauchamp, Zack. “Map of the countries where the pill is fully subsidized” Vox, 30 June 2014.https://www.vox.com/2014/6/30/5857904/where-the-pill-is-free
200
Is this statement True or False:
Women in Iceland claim that they live in the only country where Gender Equality has been truly solved.
False.
Although Iceland has made immense progress when it comes to Women's Rights and has been proclaimed as the most egalitarian country for women, women have still less rights than men and are willing to fight for that equality.
"Women in Iceland, long seen as the world’s most equal country, recently went on strike, protesting stalled progress toward gender equality."
Barr, Heather. “The Taliban and Global Backlash Against Women’s Rights.” Human Rights Watch, 6 Feb. 2024. https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/06/taliban-and-global-backlash-against-womens-rights
200
In the Middle East and North African countries, women are _____ times more likely to be illiterate than men.
A) men are 2 times more likely to be illiterate.
B) men and women have the same illiteracy struggles.
C) 1.5
D) 2
D) 2
In the Middle East, women are twice as likely to be illiterate than men. They are commonly forced out of school before the age of 18 to marry.
"Women in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries are twice as likely to be illiterate as men are and make up two-thirds of the region’s illiterate adults. The gender gaps in education vary greatly across countries in the region but are generally wider in countries where overall literacy and school enrollment are lower. In Yemen, for example, the illiteracy rate among young women (54 percent) is triple that of young men (17 percent)."
Roudi-Fahimi, Farzaneh, and Moghadam, Valentine. “Empowering Women, Developing Society: Female Education in The Middle East and North Africa.” Population Reference Bureau, 20 Nov. 2003. https://www.prb.org/resources/empowering-women-developing-society-female-education-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/.
200
How many women/girls globally have married against their will?
A) 220 million.
B) 12 million.
C) 650 million.
D) 56 million.
C) 650 million.
"Each year, an estimated 12 million girls aged under 18 marry against their will. This means there are currently more than 650 million women and girls worldwide who married as children."
Heidinger, Loanna. “Trafficking in Persons in Canada, 2022.” Statistics Canada, 4 Dec.2023, https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-005-x/2023001/article/00002-eng.htm
300
What is the most significant issue in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding women's health?
A) Lack of contraceptives
B) Maternal Mortality
C) HIV/AIDS
D) Malnutrition among pregnant women
B) Maternal Mortality
"Women in Africa represent slightly over 50% of the continent’s human resources and so women’s health has huge implications for the Region’s development. Focusing in particular on the unacceptably high level of maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa."
“Addressing the Challenge of Women’s Health in Africa” World Health Organization, Accessed on 24 Nov. 2024, https://www.afro.who.int/publications/report-addressing-challenge-womens-health-africa
300
Rank these countries from the highest to the lowest gender wage gap.
Finland, South Korea, Mexico, Japan
1. South Korea (highest gap - 31.2%)
2. Japan (21.3%)
3. Finland (17.5%)
4. Mexico (lowest gap - 16.7%)
“Gender Wage Gap.” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 2022, Accessed on 24 Nov. 2024, https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/gender-wage-gap.html
300
Which of these countries has the worst education system, especially for young girls?
A) Lebanon
B) South Sudan
C) China
D) Russia
B) South Sudan
"South Sudan has been named as the toughest nation in the world for girls to receive an education, with nearly three-quarters failing to attend even primary school."
Hodal, Kate. “The 10 Worst Countries for Girls to Get an Education.” The Guardian, 11 Oct. 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/11/revealed-the-10-worst-countries-for-girls-to-get-an-education-international-day-girl.
300
How many girls (under the age of 18) experience forms of sexual violence on a global scale.
A) 35% (1 out of 3)
B) less than 5% (1 out of 20)
C)10% (1 out of 10)
D) 20% (1 out of 5)
D) 20% (1 out of 5)
Indeed, one out of five girls get abused worldwide. Whether this abuse is physical, sexual, online, mental or verbal.
“More than 370 million girls and women alive today – or 1 in 8 – experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, […] When ‘non-contact’ forms of sexual violence, such as online or verbal abuse are included, the number of girls and women affected rises to 650 million globally – or 1 in 5. ”
Alhattab, Sara. “Over 370 Million Girls and Women Globally Subjected to Rape or Sexual Assault as Children.” UNICEF New York, 9 Oct. 2024, https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/over-370-million-girls-and-women-globally-subjected-rape-or-sexual-assault-children
400
Which of these Central and South American countries have banned abortion?
1. Cuba 2. Chile 3. Argentina 4. Nicaragua
A) 1 and 3
B) 3 and 4
C) 2 and 4
D) All of them
C) 2 and 4
South American countries have majorly banned abortion which gives women no choice but to get an unsafe abortion or forcibly pursue their pregnancy.
"Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Republica Dominicana criminalize all sorts of abortion, even in case of rape or when the woman's life or health is at risk.”
Zúñiga-Fajuri, Alejandra. "Human Rights And The Right To Abortion In Latin America." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2014, p. 842, Accessed on 21 Nov. 2024, https://www.scielosp.org/article/csc/2014.v19n3/841-846/.
400
Which of these statements is not part of the new Iranian Law on human rights?
A) A woman cannot leave the country without her husband's approval.
B) Women are prohibited from holding high-ranking government positions.
C) In most cases, the testimony of a women is not sufficient in a court of law.
D) The age of maturity for a girl is nine lunar years and for boys is fifteen lunar years.
B) Women are prohibited from holding high-ranking government positions.
Indeed, all of these laws are everyday issues for women in Iran. Some other discriminatory laws include "The husband is designated the head of the household. A woman is legally obligated to be obedient to her husband. A man may prohibit his wife from employment." (pp.5-6) All of these laws go against gender equality enforcing women's "inferiority" to men through legal processes.
All statements including A), C) and D) are quoted from;
Kar, Mehrangiz. "Iranian Law and Women's Rights." Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 4.1, 2007, Accessed on 22 Nov. 2024, https://scholar.google.ca/scholar_url?url=http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/SW/6621/Frost/iranianlaw.pdf&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=cK5AZ-zrO6PBy9YP5qaIiAU&scisig=AFWwaeaMo_5VB0WEc3ylnP3XYsFZ&oi=scholarr
400
Which region of the world has the biggest education gap between genders because of the traditional and privileged role men have in the culture?
A) North Africa
B) South-East Asia
C) Middle East
D) Latin America
C) Middle East
The majority of Arab States in the Middle East have established a system in which the man leads and the woman obeys. As a result of this intergenerational norm, women are far behind in terms of education.
"Girls have the least access to education. They make up more than 54% of the non-schooled population in the world. This problem occurs most frequently in the Arab States, [...] and is principally explained by the cultural and traditional privileged treatment given to males."
“Situation of children’s right to education worldwide.” Humanium: Right to Education, Accessed 25 Nov. 2024, https://www.humanium.org/en/right-to-education/#:~:text=Today%2C%20education%20remains%20an%20inaccessible,and%20those%20of%20their%20children.
400
Southeast Asia is one of the areas with the highest human trafficking rates, which of these statements is false?
A) 60% of female victims are being trafficked for domestic work, prostitution, reproduction and child care.
B) 2023 is the first year where boys are trafficked at higher rates than girls.
C) In 2021, 22 million women were victims of human trafficking.
D) In Canada, more than one-third of trafficking victims are caught by their relationship partners.
B) 2023 is the first year where boys are trafficked at higher rates than girls.
"Human trafficking is often considered gender-based harm, as women and children are more likely to face this form of violent exploitation. Over 60% of women and 27% of girls reported being trafficked for gender-specific labor, such as domestic work, childcare, and sex work. In 2021, over 22 million women were trafficked and forced into marriage."
Kurmanbekova, Aichurek, and Rahut, Dil. “Fighting the Trafficking of Women and Children in Asia.” Asia Pathways: Asian Development Bank Institute, 1 Aug. 2023, https://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2023/08/fighting-the-trafficking-of-women-and-children-in-asia/