Modern Issues
Gender neutral replacement pronoun for she or he.
What is they?
When an employer asserts wrongful advantage of his power over his/her employees.
What is workplace harassment?
This is the civil right women were fighting to obtain through the Suffrage movement.
What is the right to vote?
A movie star from a young age primarily in her role as Hermione Granger, she started the HeForShe movement to advocate for women to have the same rights, respect, and opportunities afforded to men.
Who is Emma Watson?
The human right that 15 year old Malala Yousafzai was fighting for herself and all girls in Pakistan when she was shot by the Taliban in retaliation for her activism.
What is an education?
The only country in North Central or South America that does not provide paid maternity leave.
What is USA?
When an employer uses his position to take sexual advantage of an employee.
What is sexual harassment?
The name given to the five prominent Canadian women who petitioned for women's rights in the early 1900's.
What is the Famous Five?
Indian actress, singer, and film producer working primarily in Bollywood films, and recently married to Nick Jonas, she is vocal about gender equality, the gender pay gap, and feminism.
Who is Priyanka Chopra?
The right women in Saudi Arabia were granted by King Salman in 2018.
What is driving a car?
A social movement against sexual abuse and sexual harassment where people speak out about sexual abuse.
What is the #MeToo Movement?
The percentage of Fortune 500 companies with a female CEO. <10%, 10-20%, 20-30%, 30-40%.
What is <10%.
No women had the right to vote in Canadian elections before this year.
What is 1917?
Actor Elliot Page's former name before officially changing his gender designation from female to male.
What is Ellen Page?
The number of countries where women need their husbands permission to apply for a passport? <10, 10-20, 21-30, 31-40?
What is 31-40 (ANS 32)?
In 2014 Angela Merkel became the longest-serving incumbent head of government in the European Union for this country.
What is Germany?
The % difference between men's and women's earnings in Canada? <5%, 5-15%, 15-25%, 25-35%?
What is 15-25%?
The right for women to vote was achieved after a court battle to identify women as this.
What is a person?
Known for her push for women's right to equal pay in tennis, she beat 55yr old Bobby Riggs in 1973 in a tennis match in Houston Texas.
Who is Billy Jean King?
Any one of 4 states in the US that allow children as young as 12 years old to marry.
What are Pennsylvania, Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey.
The annual event in Burlington and Milton to help bring Awareness, Prevention ad Support to the issues of abuse against women in our community and around the world.
What is the BeThatGuy Movement?
This Canadian Law requires employers to ensure men and women receive “equal pay for work of equal value.
What is the Pay Equity Act?
Any one of the 5 Canadian women noted for the Suffrage Movement of the early 1900's.
Who are Emily Murphy, Henrietta Edwards, Nellie McClung,Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby.
One of only 4 women to be appointed as justice for the US Supreme Court, and praised for her advocacy of women's rights, she died last year at 87.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsberg?
In this country a woman needs her husband's permission to seek a divorce.
What is Israel?