Geography 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White Ribbon Campaign, Heterosexuality, Essentialism

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2410A/B
• Professor: Jeff Hopkins

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Lecture 6: difference between sexes, gender basics, the f" word & geography, geographies of masculinities. Female infant mortality rates are unnecessarily higher than boys in some parts of the world due to lower statistics of women true: women on the planet will be subjected to sexual/physical abuse during their lifetime false, 1/3. 2/3 of the world"s illiterates = females true. Females, especially young, have higher unemployment true: on average, only 25% of the world"s elected parliament members are female false, 19% At a global scale, in terms of birth, education, politics, health, and economics, opportunities and power is different and unequal between sexes; females = disadvantaged. If born female, one"s chance of living in poverty is higher than male true, they comprise the majority of poor. Female comprise just under 50% of labour force true, 46% 2011, canadian federal election, only 76% of 308 seats in parliament were female true, highest ever.