Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 05

Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 05

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. Development issues were constructed as "problems" to be solved with ________.

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. Development models that essentialize women and girls have roots in ________.

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. The chronological order of the following theoretical approaches that influence developmental interventions involving Third World women is ________.

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. Women around the world continue to face high maternal death rates. For example, ________ women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy.

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. ________ has the highest proportion of married adolescents (29 per cent).

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. In 1970, ________ argued for the inclusion of women and women's needs in development, particularly their economic contributions to development.

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. The ________ approach was defined by the United Nations as the integration of gender into the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the policies and programs in all political, economic, and societal spheres.

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. The ________ approach saw development issues as "problems" to be solved with policies and programs geared to addressing "overpopulation"

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. The ________ approach called for specific attention to women as development actors.

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. The HeForShe campaign is a strategy designed ________.

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. While addressing gender inequality in international development is a human rights imperative, as well as central to development projects' success and efforts to improve the quality of life for all, achieving gender equality requires ________.

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. Security Council Resolution 1325 recognized ________.

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. The women in development approach was influenced by ________.

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. ________ raised questions about the difficulties facing women in a world shaped by Western patriarchal structures.

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. An important outcome from the Beijing Conference was the ________, which outlined 12 strategic objectives and actions pertaining to gender issues ranging from poverty to political participation.

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. Discrimination is experienced in essentially the same way by women all over the world.

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. Achieving gender equality requires involvement of diverse actors and stakeholders informed by critical and theoretical insights.

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. The sexual division of labour refers to a form of social organization that imposes different and hierarchically-defined roles on men and women.

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. In the World Development Report 2012, the World Bank moves away from focusing on women and turns towards gender equality.

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. The shift in focus from women to gender was driven by the limited success of two decades of development programs aimed at improving women's economic, political, and social positions.

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. Empowerment was initially regarded as a weapon for the weak.

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. NGOs have begun to recognize the role socialization plays in shaping and responding to traditional patriarchal masculine ideals and expectations.

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. Feminist scholarship has increasingly documented the gendered nature of rape and sexual violence as weapons of war.

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. Targeting women for population control and essentializing them in relation to biological functions as mothers is the perspective that is favoured by most of the gender equality approaches.

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. The women and development approach evolved out of the broad constellation of socialist feminism.

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. In the 1990s, gender mainstreaming emerged as a key mechanism for achieving equality and women's empowerment.

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. Latin American scholars fully accepted the term "post-colonial" to address the issues of gender equality.

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. The international community has failed to produce conditions that are beginning to shift perceptions about gender relations and masculinity/ies.

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. The foundation for a more comprehensive understanding of human rights and women's/gender rights can be found in earlier commitments, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

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. The Beijing Conference failed to represent international commitment to the promotion of gender equality.

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