World of Women Test 1

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In Rwanda, women represent ________%of elected officials in government, the highest percentage in the world.

17.4%

What is the average percentage of women represented in government world-wide?

Africa

Which continent has the greatest numbers of total populations living in deprivation?

Africa/Asia

Which continent has the most recent dates for women winning the right to vote?

North America, Europe, Australia for both

Which three continents rank highest in the Gender Development Index and the Gender Gap Index?

Botswana, Swaziland, 33-34

3. What country has the lowest life expectancy for women? In this country, women live on average ____________ years.

Japan, Hong Kong, 86

What country has the highest life expectancy for women?In this country, women live on average ___________ years

Widespread use of prenatal sex selection techniques and selective abortions of female fetuses

What does the yellow dot on Map for Son Preference indicate?

Women are restricted in their public movements, and often strictly cloistered in the home. In many of these countries, seclusion is practiced only among some ethnic or religious groups.

What is the practice of seclusion?

17%

Women represent what percentage of parliament world-wide in 2007?

Saudi Arabia

15. Women are denied the right to vote in which country?

Feeding girls less or withholding medical care from them

Female infanticide and aborting female fetuses are two ways that son preference is evident. What are two other ways that girls once born are neglected?

land

In many agrarian cultures, women typically work the fields and prepare/harvest the food, but cannot own the ___________.

3 years greater

In most countries, women have an average life expectancy _____________________________ than their male counterparts

10-29%

The USA has approximately what percentage of the total population living in deprivation?

Africa

Which continent ranks the lowest in Gender Development Index and the Gender Gap Index?

By law a wife must obey her husband; she must live with him at the place stipulated by him, consummate the marriage, and not leave the home without his consent.

What is Yemen's restrictions for women?

100, 80

In countries like South Korea, China and India, the sex ratio is approximately________ boys to as few as _________ girls.

9

In the USA, _________% of women are agricultural landowners as of the early 2000s.