Chapter 6 Self-grading Quizzes

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

. Development models that essentialize women and girls have often failed to ________.

. The chronological order of the following theoretical approaches that influence developmental interventions involving women and their relation to development is ________.

. From a macroeconomic perspective, the IMF states that women's full participation in the labour market would ____________.

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

. 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.

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

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

. The Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is led by ____________.

. 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 ________.

. Security Council Resolution 1325 recognized ________.

. The women in development approach was influenced by ________.

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

. 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.

. The establishment of international commitments to gender equality has increased in the last decade and has been essential, ________________.

. Challenges to achieving gender equality continue to raise concerns for women's and girls' empowerment, as well as for _____________.

. To address gender inequality in economic empowerment projects, __________.

. From an intersectional analysis, ___________.

. Ending early and forced marriage requires____________.

. Analytically speaking, the movement from the category "woman" to the category "gender"________

. The term post-colonial/de-colonial __________.

. Latin American social, economic, political, and cultural complexities _________.

. Placing empowerment at the centre of efforts to achieve gender equality requires _________.

. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ____________.

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

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

. A feminist approach to women's economic empowerment recognizes fissures in today's economic model.

. Poverty did not play a role in move away from focusing on women to focusing on gender and development.

. 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.

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

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

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

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

. The women and development approach evolved out of socialist feminism.

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

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

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

. 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.

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

. To ensuring development success, comprehensive, simple approaches are necessary.

. UN resolutions have been reluctant to assert that early and forced marriages have long-term impacts on women's educational and economic opportunities.

. Limitations of gender equality policies and commitments include difficulties around funding, tracking, and implementing policies.

. To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls is not a commitment within the SDGs.

. Combatting femicides/feminicidios requires a multi-dimensional approach, as this form of gender-based violence is embedded in structures of gender inequality.

. Women's rights have also been violated even by peacekeeping forces.

. The adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security recognized sexual and gender-based violence as a human rights issue

. Male-female/masculine-feminine relations have not been taken seriously in development theories and scholarship

. Early projects identified men and masculinities by first focusing on the role of men in the spread of HIV/AIDS, violence against women, and opposition to women's empowerment.

. Gender mainstreaming means that gender should be integrated into the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs.

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