GENDER AND SOCIETY FINALS 1

1. According to the World Bank, _____ % of women worldwide, have experienced either physical and/or
sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence.

= 35%

2. FGM is not only a matter of equality among females, but it protects a person's rights to health,
security, and physical integrity.

= False

3. In Canada, most provinces have passed legislation based on Saskatchewan’s Victims of Domestic
Violence Act (1995), which increases the options and material support available to victims.

= True

4. It is a euphemism to prostitution during World War II.

= Comfort Women

5. Activities heavily associated with violence are overwhelmingly shaped by understandings of gender
and gender roles.

= True

6. In 2011 and 2015, ________ has recorded 40,000 dowry-related deaths.

= India

7. Europe also has a long history of gender-based violence including violent periods of religious
persecution through eras such as the ____________.

= witch hunts

8. There is no nation free from gender-based violence.

= True
9. South Africa was also found to have the highest rate of rape in the world at 132.4 incidents of rape
per 1,000 people.

= False

10. According to the World Bank, globally, ____% of women have been sexually assaulted by someone
other than a partner.

= 7%

11. In history, one of the most noteworthy acts of violence against women is the sexual slavery that
happened in World War II.

= True

12. Violence can and does occur for females only.

= False

13. Anyone can be the victim or perpetrator of gender-abused because of class, race, age, or religion.

= False

14. In WWII, the minority of young Asian women occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army were forced
into being the sex slaves.

= False

15. The Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that a third of all women in Australia have been
assaulted physically and a fifth of all women have been assaulted sexually.

= True

16. It is the harm inflicted upon individuals and groups that is connected to normative understandings of
their gender.

= Gender-based violence
17. The effects of gender-based abuse are long-lasting and wide-ranging that leaves the victim a
devastating life, social ills, and/or death.

= True

18. According to the World Bank, ____% of murders of women are committed by an intimate partner.

= 38%

19. _________________________ justifies that GBV are main cause of international homicides and the
record was set from Nepal and Bangladesh.

= Asia Foundation

20. European countries with a prevalence of GDV are Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Maldives.

= False