Chapter 15 Practice Quiz

Women and Politics
. The first woman delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland was ________

. About ________ of municipal councillors across Canada are female.

. Brooks cites all of the following reasons for women's under-representation in public life, except that ________.

. Approximately ________ of those below the poverty lines established by Statistics Canada are women.

. A 2012 international survey of 370 gender experts ranked ________ the best country in the world in which to be a woman.

. The achievements of modern feminism include ________.

. All of the following are court rulings representing victories for women, except ________.

. Canada's first female Prime Minister was ________.

. According to the author, the traditional roles of mother and homemaker have often operated to limit women ________.

. In 1971 the labour force participation rate for married women with children under six years old was slightly more than one-quarter. Today it is ________.

. Whereas 65 per cent of Canadian families were one-earner/male-breadwinner families in 1961, today ________ follow that model.

. According to the textbook, among Canada's highest 1 per cent of all income earners, ________ are male.

. In his essay On the Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill lists (and refutes) the following principal arguments against the political and legal equality of the sexes, except that ________.

. Nationally, women in Canada became citizens between ________.

. In 1930, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King appointed ________ as the first woman senator.

. The second wave of feminism was more effective than the early women's movement because of the following three factors: ________.

. The sharp increase in female labour force participation since the 1960s has been explained by ________.

. Which of the following women was a first wave feminist?

. What provinces were the first and last to grant women the right to vote?

. Which countries rank ahead of Canada for gender equality in the World Economic Forum's index?

. How many CEO's of the top 100 Canadian businesses on the TSX are female?

. The early women's movement did not threaten the social and economic pillars of male dominance.

. According to second-wave feminist Simone de Beauvoir, gender role differences are not inherent.

. Currently, eight of the nine Supreme Court justices are women.

. Historically, women have been less interested in politics than men due to biological factors.

. Suffragists often allied themselves with organizations promoting such causes as temperance, educational reform, child labour laws, and public service reform.

. Agnes Macphail was the first woman elected to Parliament.

. Friedrich Engels's arguments on the social construction of gender differences and the subordination of women were in the tradition of liberal utilitarianism.

. The birth control pill became widely available and used during the 1980s.

. Engels sought to show that the subservience of women to men within the family and, by extension, in society is based on economic foundations.

. Section 28 of the Charter, which states that "the rights and freedoms referred to in [the Charter] are guaranteed equally to male and female persons," was a direct product of the intense lobbying by women's group.

. Examples of outsider influence strategies that have been used by women's groups include lobbying, presentations to royal commissions, task forces, and other government inquiries.

. Canadians' attitudes towards gender equality are less progressive than those of the populations of most other affluent democracies.

. In 2019, there was only one federal political party led by a female.

. Single-parent families headed by men constitute the most poverty-prone group in Canada.

. In 1927 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the legal meaning of "persons" excluded females.

. Revolutions in Britain (1688), America (1776), and France (1789) led to agitation for equality of political rights, but with limited social change at the time.

. When women were allowed to enter politics, they employed brokerage politics.

. Third-wave feminism is unique because it has an identifiable single-issue agenda.

. As of 2019, there are no female provincial premiers in Canada.

. The number of women in parliament and the Senate has risen since the 1980s.

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