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Q: ways women have been marginalized in the education system
Ans: -push to female careers
-constructed as passive and emotional
-men tend to occupy positions of authority
Q: what does it mean by pink softens the disease?
Ans: -It expresses that breast cancer is a positive, delicate journey when in
reality it is far from it
-Horrible pressure on those affected to be positive and beautiful when
dealing with the illness
Q: Educating young women reduces
Ans: fertility rates and infant mortality
Q: educating young women increases
Ans: likelihood that the next generation are educated, family income and
standards of living
Q: the girl effect
Ans: A 1% increase in female education raises the GDP by 0.3% and raises
annual GDP growth rates by 0.2%
,Q: What does Rich mean by "claim an education"?
Ans: assuming you share responsibility for what happens in the classroom,
because that affects the quality of your daily life
-ongoing struggle for a real education
Q: what is feminism?
Ans: the belief that women have been historically subordinate to men as
well as to the commitment to working for freedom for women in all
aspects
Q: First Wave
Ans: largely concerned with better education for women and political
representation for women
Q: Second Wave
Ans: concerned with advancing the social and legal status of women.
-improve representation in media
-advance womens status in the workplace
Q: Third Wave
Ans: Arguing that eariler feminist forgot to talk about race, class, age and
ability in their analyses of oppression
-women empowerment
Q: why dont women want to be labelled a feminist?
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, Ans: -viewed as annoying activism (frowned upon)
-man hater
Q: Christina Hoff Sommers
Ans: women cant have everything as they do not have the choice. Women
are forced to choose between a career and a happy family.
(expected to quit once they get pregnant)
Q: women's studies classroom
Ans: -a space of free speech, equality and open opinions.
-encourages learning and growth in a non-sexist and open minded way
Q: The (in)visibility of Gender
Ans: men are privileged due to their gender, they are defined as the norm
or default
(he or his is the default in writing)
Q: The Privilege of Invisibility (Kimmel)
Ans: when one cannot see the privilege that they have (gender, race, class)
-many women do not see or understand that they are not as privileged as
men are.
Q: John Stuart Mill
Ans: saw the exclusion of women from the public sphere and their
subjection to men in the private sphere as a source of much
unhappiness for all individuals involved and for society as a whole
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