What is a woman’s place in the world?

Take this test from the BBC

Gender gaps around the world (World Economic Forum 2015)

Why is Iceland the best place in the world to be a woman? – The Guardian

Discussion:

How is economic change in China impacting on the lives of its men and women? BBC News – Chinese women and marriage

What are women’s roles  and how are they changing in the world today?

Sheryl Wudunn – TED Talk

Charts from woman stats.org

World Economic Forum – Global Gender Gap Report presents a detailed account of gender differences around the world. For more specific information, see below;

1. Gender and legal rights theweek.co.uk – 11 things women in Saudi Arabia cannot do	2. Gender and Migration The Guardian – Bride trafficking	3. Gender and Health The image above comes from a UN Report (2010) irinnews.org – Women’s health in Indonesia	4. Gender and land tenure World Bank – Ethiopian women gain status through landholding
5. Gender and empowerment % of females in government The Guardian – Swiss women outnumber men in parliament	6. Gender and employment swissinfo.ch – Glass ceiling, sticky floor swissinfo.ch – Gender gap widens in Switzerland The Guardian – Poor pay, worse jobs… The Guardian – unequal pay continues (Nov 2015)  Banks address gender in UK – Guardian March 2016	7. Gender & life expectancy NBC News – Men closing the gap BBC – Biological clue to why women live longer than men	8. Gender & education The Guardian – Malala Yousafz The Guardian – Sanitation in Indian schools The Independent – Taliban restrict women’s education in Pakistan
9. Gender & culture BBC News – Japan	10. Gender & status The Guardian – UK Gender Gap	11. Gender & family size BBC News – Gender issues and birth rates The Guardian – France’s baby boom secret

Other resources on gender issues – greenfieldgeography

Gender and birth ratios – China case study

The Guardian – China’s Great Gender Crisis	Birth ratios map from Chartsbin.com	BBC video – China facing one child policy dilemma
thechinastory.org – China’s gender imbalance	China Daily – China’s gender imbalance still grave	BBC – China faces growing gender imbalance
CNN – How China’s lonely bachelors are helping its economy grow	BBC – China’s left-over women	Single women between 25 and 30 – China’s problem?

This UN report provides more detail on many of the areas above- World’s Women 2010

The OECD website will also help.

How might gender inequality be reduced?

Gender equality still decades away – The Guardian

voxeu.org – New strategies to promote gender equality

wikigender.org

Is the gender gap closing? BBC News article