Women

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Womens Status

• Group One ??? ???
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The Story of an Hour

• A sad news
• Freedom
• Dead of the happiness?????

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• The exception of freedom was broken
• She was fettered.

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Lost Lives of Women

• Bound feet
• The second concubine
• A man complained that his wife was too ugly, and
  married the second wife.
• Order to be a widow.

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• In 13th paragraph, You do not know what its
  like to have no position in life.
• Women in ancient China did not have their own
  wills. Men led the society.

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Issue Discussion

• We choose five criteria to measure the global
• gender gap.
• 1.Economic participation
• 2.Economic opportunity
• 3.Political empowerment
• 4.Educational attainment
• 5. Health and well-being

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Economic participation

• Womens presence in the workforce in quantitative
  terms.
• In both developed and developing countries, women
  are still averaging slightly less than 78 of the
  wages given to men for the same work.
• Although globalization has generated many
  opportunities, it has sometimes intensified
  existing inequalities and insecurities for many
  poor women.

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Economic opportunity

• The quality of womens economic involvement.
• Women are most often concentrated in feminized
  professions , such as nursing and teaching,
  office work, care of the elderly and disabled
  where they tend to remain in lower job categories
  than men.
• Typically, because these functions are carried
  out by women, they are the lowest paid, in
  addition to offering limited or no opportunity
  for advancement.

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Political empowerment

• The statistics range from 6.8 in the Arab States
  to 18.6 in the Americas, and 39.7 in the Nordic
  states.
•  While women are poorly represented in the lower
  levels of government, they are still rarer in the
  upper levels of decision-making.

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Educational attainment

• Education and literacy reduce mortality rates of
  female children.
• Women still constitute two-thirds of the worlds
  illiterate population.

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Health and well-being

• According to the World Health Organization,
  585,000 women die every year, over 1,600 every
  day, from causes related to pregnancy and
  childbirth.

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The Gender Gap Rankings
Country Overall rank Overall score
Sweden 1 5.53
Norway 2 5.39
Iceland 3 5.32
Denmark 4 5.27
Finland 5 5.19
New Zealand 6 4.89
Canada 7 4.87
United Kingdom 8 4.75
Germany 9 4.61
Australia 10 4.61
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• Western Women

Past Present
Education ?Discouraged in accepting education ?More and more women accepted higher education (after 17th )
Marriage ?Loyal ?Got married early ?Social status ?Divorce ?Single ?Have initiative in economy (after 18th )
Occupation ?Few chances ?Housewife ?Poorly-paid ?Double income ?Depend on ability ?Protected by law
Politic ?Cannot interfere political affair ?Equal right to vote ?Women movement
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• East v.s West

East West
Education ?Taught by textbook ?Emphasize in DIY
Marriage ?Taking divorce as an shameful thing ?Divorce
Values ?Conservative ? Open idea of sex

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A special phenomenon in Taiwan-Vietnamese brides

• Vietnamese brides for sale!!??

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Some problems begin to arise...

• Social conception discrimination
• Communication
• Family violence
• Problems with their mother-in law
• Children education

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Self Reflection

• repressed
• preliminary protect
  
• overprotect
• ?
• true equality

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• The end
• gt_