SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: World Economic Forum, Maternal Death, Sex Selection

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1430
• Professor: Miguel Gonzalez

Document Summary

Tuesday, october 27th, 2015 (intro: understanding gender, why is gender a development issue, gender, class, and. Understanding of development has changed: greater recognition of various issues and dimensions not examined in previous approaches. Within modernization and dependency theories, academic understandings of development is a central concern (both for policy making and for promoting broader political movements); Realization: citizens" groups can play a role. North and south - can in uence development - most successful have been those that linked both working together. Academic trends and changes, especially in social sciences always related to broader political developments; Of the world"s 1. 3 billion poor people, it is estimated nearly 70 percent are women - disproportionately affected. Improvements when considering condition of women across societies: More women working for wages than ever in human history - women involvement in economy. Higher rate of increase in participation in the labor force than men;