Unit 1.3 Poverty and Gender Equality Flashcards
Define the word ‘Empower’
To give strength, authority and confidence
What is MDG 3?
To promote gender equality and empower women
What is ‘The world’s Women’?
A document produced every 5 years by the UN that assesses gender equality and what needs to be done to close the gender gap.
Name 4 traditional female roles in society
Gatherers
Domestic workers
Family carers
Community workers
Name 4 traditionally male roles in society
Hunters
Income earners
Decision Makers
Land Owners
Name 6 ways in which women may be denied their human rights in some societies
Denied opportunities in education and employment
Instructed how to dress and behave
Given no freedom of movement or speech
Required to give any earnings to husbands
Not allowed to vote or enter politics
Subjected to FGM or human trafficking
What is meant by a gender gap?
Economic, cultural and social differences between men and women.
Give 4 examples of how governments can reduce the gender gap with regards to women and land?
Change inheritance laws to prevent women being evicted by male relatives.
Allow women to register land in their own name and so access loans.
Make agricultural services available to women as well as men.
Allow women to take places on Rural Development Boards
What does FFLS stand for, what does it do?
Farmer Field and Life School
This organisation operates in Uganda helping men and women who have been affected by civil war to gain knowledge in agricultural production as well as HIV prevention and issues of gender inequality and violence.
It is a partnership programme of the UN and the government of Norway.
List 4 negative impacts of women and girls being responsible for collecting water and firewood for the home.
They have less time for education and income-earning activities.
They are too tired to concentrate at school or work in the fields.
Heavy buckets cause injuries and stress to weak bodies.
They are fearful of being attacked.
Name 5 advantages on women’s lives if electricity could be supplied to their homes.
Electric pumps to access clean, underground water nearby could be installed.
Power for cooking, heating and lighting.
Power for craft-making and other income-earning activities to pay for the supply.
Less smoke and fumes from fires means fewer respiratory problems.
Radio and internet access for information and learning.
What is meant by ‘the killer kitchen’?
Wood burning stoves in poorly-ventilated homes are responsible for 1.6 million deaths per year in developing countries.
What is meant by ‘The Glass Ceiling’?
A barrier that prevents women with the same skills and experience as men from being promoted up the career ladder.
How could the lives of working mothers be made easier? List 4 examples.
Job Sharing.
Part-time working / flexi-time.
Mobile technology and video conferencing enabling home-working.
Affordable and reliable child care.
Maternity benefits.
Networking for group support.
Laws to prohibit gender discrimination in the workplace.
Over half a million women die as a complication of child birth each year. Give 5 reasons for this.
Lack of knowledge of care required e.g. adequate diet.
Childbirth in unhygienic conditions with no midwife present.
Lack of transport to mater its facilities.
Lack of emergency facilities to deal with complications.
Early pregnancy due to child marriage.
Lack of family planning gives bodies little time to recover between pregnancies.
Men not allowing their wives to attend clinics.
Violence from men if women are unable to do domestic duties during pregnancy.
Extra stress on an already malnourished body.
