WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Resources Development Canada, Glass Ceiling, Gender Equality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Consider why we called women"s and genders studies . Critical concerns about women and equalities: work, education, health violence and political power. Women make up half of the world population and yet represent 70% of the worlds poverty. Dropped to 25 from 7th ranked for gender equality. Women: they are going into caring programs: health sciences, visual and performance arts, communications and behavior science. Men: they go into mathematics, engineering, computer science. Women professors experience more and more extreme cph (harassment) than men do. Women with a bachelors degree ratio were . 89 for each . 00 (2005). In certain fields the value of money changes but it needs to be updated every year. Even though women have an higher education than man, men tend to make than women. Women do about 4. 2 hours a day doing unpaid work, while men do about 2. 2 hours.