MCQs - Chapter 17

The percentage of women in national parliaments worldwide (2012 date) is: 1.56%; 5%; 15.1%; 28%

15.1%

In what year was the first UN women's conference? 1919; 1943; 1961; 1975

1975

Feminists believe gender should be: a descriptive category; an analytical tool; irrelevant; a descriptive category and an analytical tool

A descriptive category and an analytical tool

Which event in the 1990s helped to put women's issues on the global agenda for years to come? Vienna Human Rights Conference 1993; UN General Assembly Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women 1979; Cairo International Conference on Population and Development 1994; Beijing Women's Conference 1995

Beijing Women's Conference 1995

Who asked 'where are the women?' Cynthia Enloe; V. Spike Petersen; Maragret Thatcher; J. Ann Tickner

Cynthia Enloe

The Decade for Women led to the creation of what network? A development Alternatives with Women for a New Era; National Organization for Women; Women in Development; Feminism

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era

Feminism is a solely Western phenomenon

False

Women's role in the myth of protection shelters them from violence during warfare

False

Masculinity and femininity are ____ concepts. Radical; relational; social; sexual

Relational

The difference between liberal and postliberal feminists is in their attitude toward: the effect of legal equality; the possibility for emancipation; postmodernism; the role of men in women's subordination

The effect of legal equality

'Breadwinner' is a traditionally masculine role of working in the public sphere for wages and providing the economic needs of the family

True

Feminism was generally a political movement first and academic theory second

True

The Gender Development Index seeks to measure the quality of development factoring in gender inequality

True

What war strategy particularly challenges the protection myth? Genital mutilation; Execution of women; War rape; Systemic beatings and brandings

War rape

Feminisits disagree over; whether women are subordinate; why women are subordinated; who subordinates them; nothing

Why women are subordinated