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 **Source Citation** STROMQUIST, NELLY P. "Gender Issues, International." //Encyclopedia of Education//. Ed. James W. Guthrie. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 919-921. //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. **Document URL** http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX3403200254&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * 1) Women's access to schooling is far away from equal to than the men have.
 * 2) About 42 million fewer girls than guys are enrolled at the primary level and about 33 million fewer at the secondary school level.
 * 3) Completion of girls schooling is at a risk because of their poor parents are willing to invest in their boys since boys will be expected to support parents while girls will follow their husbands families when they are adults.
 * 4) In developing countries, some rural families are unwilling to send their daughters to school for fear they will learn new values, becoming less inclined to accept domestic work and more interested in joining salaried occupations
 * 5) Cultural factors such as a girl's age for marriage, anxiety about the sexuality and sexual safety of girls, and the division of labor at home affect girl's enrollment and both primary and secondary school completion.

 **Source Citation** Gupta, Asha. "Gender and Human Rights." //Encyclopedia of India//. Ed. Stanley Wolpert. Vol. 2. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 131-133. //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. **Document URL** http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX3446500245&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * 1) Women perform about 60% of the world's total work but receive only 10% of the world's income.
 * 2) Addressing the World Congress of Women at Moscow in June 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev observed "The status of women is a barometer of the democratism of any state and an indicator of how human rights are respected in it."
 * 3) Have unite with lack of education and poverty to prevent many women from succeeding as individuals.
 * 4) After India's independence in 1947 a few steps were taken to bridge gender-based lack of equality legally.
 * 5) The rights of women are hugely inalienable, integral, and indivisible part of all human rights.
 * 6) Women constitute about 60% of world's poor.
 * 7) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Women own only about 1% of the world's land.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Source Citation** "Feminine Sports Reel." //Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources//. Ed. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 29-32. //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 2 Nov. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX2587400024&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
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 * 1) <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The 1928 Summer Olympic Games was a great important point history of female athletics. These Games represented the first time that women were acceptable as athletes in the Summer Olympics.
 * 2) <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The American war efforts and the resulting organizing of millions of servicemen after 1941 also immediately followed the formation of the first women's professional baseball league.

<span class="small" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> **Source Citation** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Stabler, Blake Jackson. "Gender Equality and Agriculture." //Food//: //In Context//. Ed. Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner. Vol. 1: Advertising Food to International Fund for Agricultural Development. Detroit: Gale, 2011. 412-415. //Gale Virtual Reference Library//. Web. 2 Nov. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX1918600129&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
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 * 1) <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Women in Sub-Saharan Africa are responsible for 90% of food in that region.
 * 2) <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In some societies, women can't hold rights to own land by them selves without help of their husbands or male relatives.

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" Gender Inequality Contributes to the Problem of Malnutrition " by International Food Policy Research Institute. Malnutrition. Margaret Haerens, Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2009. International Food Policy Research Institute, "The High Price of Gender Inequality," IFPRI Perspectives, April 2002. Reproduced by permission of the International Food Policy Research Institute www.ifpri.org. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010648214&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=caad4d4dc7aef2dba7f2d45528d26349
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 * 1) Amartya Sen coined the term "missing women" to describe the massive numbers of women world-wide who are literally not alive because family neglect and discrimination.
 * 2) Amartya Sen also estimated that worldwide there are about 100 million missing women, half are in South Asia.

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" Women Are the Victims of Sexism " by Andrea C. Poe. Feminism. Jennifer A. Hurley, Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2001. Reprinted with permission from "You Call This Progress?" by Andrea C. Poe, Toward Freedom, March/April 1998. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010122213&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=e8ac212f90f5a1e5232b25f3646b93e9
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 * 1)  Women continue to be in chargeof the cooking, cleaning, and the running of time-consuming household chores.
 * 2) Men remain the masters of the lawn, repairs, and the grill.
 * 3) Female athletes are granted the respect or the money awards of males athletes.
 * 4) Women are being denied to economic and political resources from policies and practices that on purpose discriminate against women whose situation is most similar to men's
 * 5) In the military even though trained and ranked like men, women are legally banned from the highest and most honorable duties required of a soldier the right to fight.
 * 6) In politics when a woman wins president of the United States, we will know that we have begun to make real  gain s.

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"Gender-Based Domination Promotes Prostitution and Sex Trafficking " by Monica O'Connor and Grainne Healy. What are the Causes of Prostitution? Louise Gerdes, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2007. Monica O'Connor and Grainne Healy, "Social/Gender Equality Consequences of Trafficking and Prostitution," The Links Between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: A Briefing Handbook. CATW-EWL 2006. Reproduced by permission. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010461210&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=c4c1ca847968762467c2ce5c89a22b4a
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 * 1) Promoting the legalization of prostitution gives the idea that men can buy women to meet their sexual needs.
 * 2) It is not acceptable for the states that are democratic to legalize men sexual using of women.

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" Women Face Discrimination in the Workplace " by Julie Lowell. Does Equality Exist in America? Stuart A. Kallen, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2006. Julie Lowell, "Women's Work and Women's Wages: Work That Is Never Done," The Racial Wealth Divide Project at United for a Fair Economy, September 19, 2005. Copyright © 2005 United for a Fair Economy. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010407206&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=62c732dd2900c0e446408aca3863b14a
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 * 1) Although the best efforts of the women's rights movement, women continue to earn largely less money than men.
 * 2) Department of Labor found that women compose 46% of the United States workforce and are found in unreasonable lower paying jobs than men.
 * 3) Women make up a larger percentage of college graduates than men at this point, women are mostly found to major in medical professions like nursing and care work.
 * 4) The degrees held at a higher rate for men often interact with their higher salaries.

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" Feminists Are to Blame for the Sexualization of Girls " by Joseph A. D'Agostino. Is Childhood Becoming Too Sexualized? Olivia Ferguson and Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2010. Joseph A. D'Agostino, "Feminism, Consumerism, & the Sexualization of Girls," Population Research Organization, March 2, 2007. Copyright © 2007 Population Research Institute (PRI). Reproduced by permission. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=true&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010714208&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=f294e86ec2c2d39db3b62108855bcd65
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 * 1) Teen girls used to be concerned with getting good grades and improving their social level. Now all they want to do is look hot.

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" The Sexualization of Children Socializes Boys to Become Sexual Predators " by Carol Platt Liebau, as told to Kathryn Jean Lopez. Is Childhood Becoming Too Sexualized? Olivia Ferguson and Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2010. Kathryn Jean Lopez, "Sex in High School," National Review Online, February 14, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by National Review, Inc., 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Reproduced by permission. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=true&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010714204&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=20bc607e7d303a886e4a9d0c8e22a2d7
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 * 1) Boys live up and/ or down to the standards girls set.
 * 2) You see more girls doing everything from wearing revealing clothing to interesting in sexual behaviors.

**"DOC: Women's Rights." //Current Issues//: //Macmillian Social Science Library//. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003. //Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 10 Nov. 2011.**
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 * 1) Women have been subject to male authority and also enjoying fewer rights and freedoms of men.
 * 2) The movement for women's rights begun in Western Europe and North America and then has affected many parts of the world.
 * 3) In a large number of countries, women can finally vote, own property, and to choose if they want to work at home or outside of home.
 * 4) Women still face disadvantages like lower pay for work, domestic violence, and laws that restrict what they do.
 * 5) In the late 1990s, women made up about 14 percent of the military.
 * 6) Women were bound to the household and considered property of men.
 * 7) Men controlled women's sexual behavior so that they could be certain of the descent of the children who would inherit the property after they pass.