POSC 20203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Harm Principle, Emergency Medicine, Economic Inequality
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Percentage of corporate officers & ceos: 2013 -> only 4% of fortune 500 ceo were women. It is estimated that 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner at some point in their lives. However, some national studies show that up to 70% of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime. In 1993, the un general assembly declaration on the elimination of violence against. Women provided a framework for action on the pandemic: but more than 20 years later, 1 in 3 women still experience physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. In terms of outcomes, men and women are not equal. These natural differences produce gender gaps: nature and nurture; combines both. Boys were over-represented at both the low and high extremes of cognitive ability.
