SOC 3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Condom

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3470
• Professor: Blumberg Rae

Document Summary

The impact of women"s economic empowerment vs disempowerment for development. Male/female economic power is the most important variable affecting the levels of gender stratification and is the key predictor of life options . Greater say in household decisions on economic issues. Mainly opt for fewer kids, spaced farther apart. Females who control income spend a greater percentage on children"s health, nutrition, and education than counterpart men. More benefits of greater economic power for women. Less violence against women in places where women have more economic power. The more men feel a threat from rising female economic power, the more likely a short term spike in vaw occurs. Greater female economic power = more environmental sustainability. For rural women, they bring in more water and firewood, so they want to protect their supplies to its easier for them to harvest. Noticed that when you cut down trees, rainfall and the water table diminishes.