POL 344- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Explicit inequality--formal laws & policies prohibiting someone from entering a specific sphere, done through formal institutions. Even when formal barriers are removed in relation to women in military, there are still many informal barriers. Lecture 2: united states, note issues of women"s marches, racial, sexual, reproductive rights, lgbtq, representation, economic, environmental. Developing world: note different issues from developed countries, violence against women, access to labor force, education, representation, legal rights, health, In this course, dependent variable often will be either high or low level of gender equality. Independent variables could be wealth, development, religion, public attitudes, culture, laws/policies: causal mechanism--what connects the independent & dependent variable, story behind cause & effect. Important to understand causal mechanism because could help in preventing things, understanding things, addressing situation, drawing generalizable conclusions: one must verify that independent & dependent variable are different, avoid tautology.
