Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Emily Murphy, Sexually Transmitted Infection, John A. Macdonald
21 Apr 2017
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What evidence do feminist scholars point to when advancing the claim that women in canada have yet to achieve gender equality? formal equality vs substantive equality. Trend seems to be that it is getting bigger february 2010 canadian. Labor congress: gets worse for female university graduates. 1981 women making 84. 4% of what men make, (university degrees) all time low 12. 2% Canada on an international level un gender equality index, 2014 canada at 25. General stats treating women ass a homogenous group, but differences between other levels such as race. Visible minority women: better educated than non-visible minority, 39. 7% of visible minority women have a university degree, compared with 27% of non-visible minority women: experienced higher levels of unemployment. Used interchangeably, not identical sex = anatomy. Gender = own understanding of whether they are male or female, gender identity therefore gender and sex do not always line up. Gender as it relates to roles and behaviors.
