SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Maternal Death
13 Oct 2013
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Lecture 5 oct 19th, 2010 gender & development intro: pros significant changes for women & development. Increased income, education gap between girls & boys, rise life expectancy, less birth rate = education, $, modernity. Participation in politics, increase equality in social life. Cons: still millions of poor women (70% of poor people are women, 850mill are illiterate, 15% politicians are women, laws not always enforced, women face hardship mostly are preventable such as maternal mortality) Demographic distortions: problem of son preference where boys valued over girls= +90million missing women imbalance. Gender: cultural meaning (views) that societies attach to biological differences. Development policies: gender blind but impact has not been gender neutral; affect men/women differently, but women negatively affected. 1 i. e. government cut back= gender blind where women may suffer more from cutbacks cultural expectations: women will care for family even thought government/community supposed to help.
