ITEC 1010- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Follow up to lecture #1 - gender as a way of socially organizing the world. Worldwide women hold a small % of parliamentary seats. For more info about this and other indicators of the gender gap, check out the global gender. Just google the name and you will find the actual report as well as other articles discussing this report. In 2015, 145 countries were evaluating in terms of the gender gap. No country has fully closed the gap, but four of the five nordic countries have closed more than. 80% of the gap, and are at the top of the ratings. A few highlights: since 2006, an additional quarter of a billion women have entered the waged labour force. But the annual pay for women as of 2015 equals the amount that men were earning back in 2005: canada is ranked overall #30 in the report. Globally, about the virus" patients today are women.
