Gender Diversity

Question 1

What mental health effects have trans people faced?

Answer 1

• depression
• suicidal thoughts
• attempted suicide

Question 2

What physical health issues have lgbtq people faced?

Answer 2

• chronic diseases
• cancer rates
• asthma/ arthritis (more for les or bi ppl)
• anal cancer
• HPV

Question 3

How are they affected in their federal jobs?

Answer 3

gender diverse federal employees experienced harassment compared to cis women and men

Question 4

What is gender-segregated work (on exam)?

Answer 4

concentration of women and men in different occupation, jobs and place of work (impacted by stereotypes)
- women over represented in clerical work
- men over represented in natural science

Question 5

What is the difference between pay equity and employment equity?

Answer 5

PE - wages reflect worth of a job not the gender or race of the worker (raises value of work preformed by women)
EE - strategy to eliminate the effect of discrimination/ fully open job competition opportunity to those excluded (move women into higher paying jobs held by men)

Question 6

What is the difference between paid work and family work?

Answer 6

PW - work for a wage or salary
FW - unpaid work such as housework, childcare and kin care
- norm: women do both
- combination of both is called double day or the second shift

Question 7

What are the 2 main factors explaining the remaining gender wage gap?

Answer 7

1. distribution of women and men across industries
2. women’s overrepresentation in part-time work

Question 8

What is white privilege?

Answer 8

inherent advantages possessed by a white person based on race in a society characterized by racial inequality
- no meant to feel guilt or to give up certain privileges

Question 9

What is the scapegoat theory?

Answer 9

frustration-aggression theory, suggests that the dominant group will displace their unfocused aggression onto a subordinate group

Question 10

What is racism?

Answer 10

implies superiority of one social group over another based on biological or cultural characteristics

Question 11

What are the elements of racism?

Answer 11

• prejudice
• ethnocentrism
• stereotyping
• discrimination

Question 12

What are the 4 types of racism?

Answer 12

• overt (making public statements about the inferiority of member of racial group)
• political (attempt to disguise a dislike of others through behavior that outwardly is non-prejudicial (white people get employed more than black))
• subliminal (unconscious criticism of minorities)
• institutional (made up of rules, procedures and practices thar directly and deliberately prevent minorities from having full and equal involvement in society)

Question 13

What is the healthy immigrant effect?

Answer 13

immigrants coming to Canada have superior health status compared to those born in Canada

Question 14

Do men have more disabilities then women?

Answer 14

yes

Question 15

What is the difference between developmental and intellectual disabilities?

Answer 15

DD - impairment of physical, learning or behavioral areas
- before age 22
ID - both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills
- low IQ
- before age 18

Question 16

What are the effects of the ACPs?

Answer 16

• decreases life-sustaining treatment
• increases use of hospice and palliative care
• prevent hospitalization