Deck 9: The Changing Status of Women: From Poverty to Precarious Work

Question 1

Find evidence from media reports during the past five years that show how the lives of many women continue to include domestic violence, systemic discrimination and exclusion from society's benefits. Identify which groups or individuals are speaking out about the issues.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Discuss how the social disparity that exists between men and women in Canada can be explained, including historical origins.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Write an essay on a female leader who has made significant contributions to the advancement of women or who has been an important figure in the women's movement.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Discuss and explore the unique realities and challenges of a specific group of women living in Canada today.

Question 5

Explore and describe living conditions, challenges and barriers of many Canadian families headed by female single parents.

Question 6

Give three examples of situations that were problematic for women in the 1960s and that inspired the women's movement

Question 7

Identify five areas in which the women's movement's commitment to rights and equity can be seen.

Question 8

Explain what the term "reproductive labour" refers to.

Question 9

Explain the significance of intersecting oppressions in relation to domestic violence.

Question 10

Describe the process that led to a dramatic fall in the number of unemployed women who qualified for Employment Insurance between 1989 and 1999.

Question 11

Who released the Global Gender Gap Report in 2006 that clearly demonstrates women are in a position of disadvantage?

A) The NDP Party of Canada
B) World Economic Forum
C) United Nations
D) World Economic Report

Question 12

The concentration of poverty among women first noticed in the 1960s is referred to as:

A) "the pink poverty phenomenon"
B) "female gender poverty"
C) the "female poverty concentration"
D) the "feminization of poverty"

Question 13

What is one of the known factors that contribute to limitations around women's ability to be economically self-sufficient?

A) Preference for being nurturers in the home
B) Equal loads of domestic work
C) Access to decent employment is restricted
D) Rural residency

Question 14

According to the 1995 UN Beijing Platform for Action, what are considered to be prerequisites for achieving political, social, economic, cultural and environmental security?

A) Greater participation by women in the United Nations
B) World peace and a World Government
C) Gender equality and a Global Military Organization
D) Empowerment of women and Gender equality

Question 15

When the conditions exist for women to realize their full human rights and to fulfill their potential to contribute to national, political, economic, social and cultural development, and to benefit from the results, we will be able to say we have achieved:

A) Feminization of success
B) Gender Equality
C) Feminist Redemption
D) Gender awareness

Question 16

What is the predominant area in which many women have found themselves, when joining the labour market?

A) Service Industries
B) Jobs formerly occupied by males
C) Manufacturing jobs
D) Teaching jobs

Question 17

Which description of the paid labour jobs usually held by women is most accurate?

A) Usually average pay, unskilled and part time
B) Usually low pay, skilled and part time
C) Usually low pay, unskilled and part time
D) Usually low pay, unskilled and full time

Question 18

Which of the following represents the average amount of time spent per day in unpaid work based on Marshall's 2006 study?

A) Women 4.3 hours per day; men 2.5 hours per day
B) Women 6 hours per day; men 1 hour per day
C) Women 3.2 hours per day; men 2.3 hours per day
D) Women 2 hours per day; men 3.1 hours per day

Question 19

How much did employment among women with children under the age of 3 increase between the mid 1970s and 2004?

A) 17%
B) 27%
C) 37%
D) 47%

Question 20

How many Canadian women have been physically or sexually assaulted by their marital or common law partner according to Mosher's 1998 study?

A) One-fifth
B) One-fourth
C) One-third
D) One-half

Question 21

Canada ranked in the top ten best 115 countries in indicators that are pertinent to evaluating inequality between men and women in the 2006 Global Gender Gap Report.

Question 22

Among persons aged 89 or older, 50.4% were women according to 2006 Statistics Canada reports.

Question 23

Men have superiority and control that are defined and enforced through all social systems and institutions, as well as through everyday attitudes and behaviours.

Question 24

A majority of Aboriginal women in Canada are living off reserves.

Question 25

Between 1996 and 2004, the rate of women in senior management positions went down by 5%, from 27% to 22%.

Question 26

From 1974 to 2003, one study found that the female spousal homicide rate has been four to five times higher than the rate of male spousal homicide.

Question 27

One of Canada's universal programs is child care.

Question 28

Approximately 80% of day care provision in Canada today is informal or unregulated.

Question 29

Women in Canada continue to be more at risk of living in poverty than men.

Question 30

One quarter of women with disabilities lived in poverty in 2001.