CDAE 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gender Equality

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Cmty Dev & Apld Econ
• Course: CDAE 002
• Professor: Dan Tobin

Document Summary

Why do we need to talk about gender in a class about sustainable development: sdg #5 -> achieve gender equality, empower women & girls. Occupation: more gender equal countries have higher happiness, gender equality is important for sustainable development & importance parts of life (such as happiness, how do gender di erences e ect life . Gender gap: divisions between what men and women. There has been improvement : positive results in terms of primary and secondary education, women more likely to get higher education, life expectancy increasing across all regions. Pay gap in the us: women make sh. 79 for ever men make. African american women: more exible work hours -> wage gap shrinks more, us is only country without maid maternity leave, rising cost of child care. More women staying home- more feasible than paying for child care during working hours: those who hold power are primarily male.