AP Human Geography Chapter 9 Section 3 – Flashcards
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GDI
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Gender-Related Development Index
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What does the GDI compare?
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The level of women development with both sexes
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GEM
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Gender Empowerment Measure
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What does GEM compare?
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The ability of women and men to participate in economic and political decision making
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What does GDI penalize?
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Penalizes a country for having a large disparity between the well-being of men and women
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What does GDI reflect?
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Differences in accomplishments and conditions of men and women
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3 GDI Factors
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-Economic indicator of gender differences -Social indicator of gender differences -Demographic indicator of gender differences
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Economic Indicator of gender differences
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Per capita female income as % of per capita male income
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Social Indicator of gender differences
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# of females enrolled in school compared to # of males and %of literate females compared to literate males
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Demographic indicator of gender differences
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Life expectancy of females compared to males
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What is the number of complete gender equality
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1
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Women may have lower ---- to men
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GDI
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MDC and LDC for GEM share the quality
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fewer women hold positions in economic and political power
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How is GEM calculated
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By combining 2 indicators of economic power and 2 indicators of political power
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Economic indicators of empowerment
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Per capita female income as a % of per capita male income and % of professional and technical jobs held by women
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Political indicator of empowerment
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% of administrative jobs held by women and % of members of national parliament who are women
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GEM is high in what countries?
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North America, Europe, and Oceania
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GEM is low in what countries?
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Africa and Asia
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GDI compared to GEM shows what about women?
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Women posses greater share of countries resources than they do power over allocation of those resources
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Which is lower in every country when being compared to each other? GEM or GDI
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GEM is lower
