Syrian Refugee Crisis

Video on the Syrian Refugee Crisis

HW for 9/29

WEF Gender Gap Index for Taiwan

1) Get the numbers (statistical information)

2) Make a list of all the relevant numbers for your section


Next week we will use this information to start finding out Taiwan's ranking and number.

Are we green, yellow, or red?

Homework for 9/22

Answer these questions:

1)           What information do they need and use?

2)           Where can you get this information about Taiwan?

3)           How do you calculate the numbers?

4)           What is the relevant information for Taiwan?

Topics:

1) Economic Participation - Madeline, Isis, Vivis, Jessie

2) Educational Attainment - Peggy, Tess, Alice, Karen, Linda

3) Health and Survival - Judy, Ruby, Belinda, Amy, Ivy

4) Political Empowerment - Celine, May, Sheena, Elsa

WEF Gender Gap Index Links

Egypt Sample

Basic Sample with Explanation

Wikipedia Full List

Closing the Gender Gap

Here's another video from the WEF about what can be done and is being done to close the worldwide gender gap. Take a look. 

Gender Gap Index

Divide up into four groups. Each group will be responsible for a different aspect of the analysis. 

1. Economic participation and opportunity
1. Percentage of women in the workforce
2. Wage gap
3. Promotions (number of women leaders/board members in business)
2. Educational attainment
1. Female literacy rate
2. Ratio in primary (小學), secondary(中學), and tertiary levels(大學)
3. Health and survival
1. Birth ratios ("missing women")
2. Female life expectancy
4. Political empowerment
1. Percentage of women in parliament (立法院)
2. Percentage of women in cabinet positions (行政院的部長)
3. Number of years of female executives (女總統的年數)

Find the relevant information for Taiwan (as recently as possible) and find out how the data was calculated. Then use your best information to help calculate the numbers for Taiwan. Will we be green, yellow, or red?

WEF Gender Gap Index Report

Complete Gender Gap report (pdf file)

Gender Gap Report for 2013

Gender Gap Report for 2014

Okay, ladies ... let's put Taiwan ON THE MAP!!!

9/8 --> 9/15 Homework

Homework 

1) Watch/read the news (TV, computer, newspaper, etc)
2) Find one piece of international news
3) Write about it in your journal
4) Write what you think about the news


For Next Week
1) Ask your mother/grandmother/any older woman: "What has changed about women's rights in your lifetime? What do you think about this?"

Weekly Journal

Write bi-weekly (once every two weeks)

Due next week (9/15) and then every other week after that

This is part of your writing grade for this class

What should you write about?

-        Watch the news

-        Write about one thing that is happening (1/2)

-        Write about what you think about this event (1/2)

-        News should be international news