PSYC 320 Chapter Notes -Gender Empowerment Measure, Genocidaires, Sex Selection
21 May 2014
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Generate global examples of gender based exploitation, violence, and oppression. Discuss global efforts to eliminate gender-based exploitation, violence, and oppression. Define gender development index (gdi) and gender empowerment measure (gem) Discuss canada"s relative ranking on the gdi and gem. Identify action that you may take against gender based exploitation, violence, and oppression. What forms of exploitation, violence, and oppression occur within and beyond canada"s borders: Rwanda: males were subject to sex-selective massacre by the. Death whether or not they were civilian or military. Males were gunned down whether or not they were involved in the movement, just because they were males. After the war 70% of the rwandan population was female. The opening blast of the genocide was accompanied by an injunction not to repeat the mistake" of the 1959 revolution, when male children had been spared only to return as guerilla fighters (jones, 2001).
