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  • November 7, 2024
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Violence against women (elements in United Nations' definition) - answer any act of
gender based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, or is likely to result in,
physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such
acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether occurring in public or private life.

gender violence - answer Structured to harness cultural notion of femininity, masc.,
procreation, and nurturance and to put them out of service of state wars and mass
murder or to fuel peacetime forms of dominance.

continuum of violence - answer Street violence, sexual harassment, emotional/ verbal
abuse, battery, sexual abuse, rape, inter partner violence.

femicide - answer Homicide of women

feminicide - answer the collective nature of these violent crimes as genocide against
women.

gendered division of labor - answer Where women generally work and where men
usually work. What is a male dominated field versus and female dominated.

gender wage gap - answerWomen on average are paid in between .53 to .80 to every
1.00 a man makes

family wage - answera wage that is sufficient to raise a family

living wage - answera wage sufficient for a single individual to live on, but not
necessarily sufficient to also support a family.

second shift - answerWhen someone is employed outside of the home and still come
home to take care of most of the household chores, raising children etc.

glass ceiling - answerAn unseen barrier to women's promotion to senior positions in the
workplace. The barrier can also be based on race or ethnicity.

comparable worth - answerA method of evaluating jobs that are traditionally defined as
mens work or women's work

mommy tax - answerThe amount of lost wages you do not receive due to being a
mother

, mommy track - answerThe placement of women in the work force in a position in which
there is not much space for movement up in the company due to their decision to have
a baby.

feminization of poverty - answerThe two poorest groups in the U.S. are women raising
children alone and women living alone at the age of 65+

globalization (and its various dimensions) - answerA process of integrating and
interaction among the people companies and governments of different nations. ( tech.,
transportation, gov., culture, flow of people, flow of capital, social movements.)

economic globalization - answerThe growing integration of national economics as
people, goods, machines and finances flow across national boundaries. `

neoliberalism - answerIdeology of "free market" trickle down economics.

Structural Adjustment Programs - answerIMF (world bank economic prescriptions),
foreign investments, privitization, cuts in social expendatures,

care chain - answera theoretical concept to describe the growing trend of. women
migrating to perform care and socially reproductive work.

care deficit - answerincrease of women in the workforce in core countries, someone
else has to take on the care they can no longer perform.

Export Processing Zones - answertransnational corp. subcontract work to local
companies making products for export.

maquiladoras - answerFactories that make goods on contract to a "parent" company.

neocolonialism - answerthe continuing inequalities between richer and poorer countries.

remittances - answera sum of money sent, especially by mail, in payment for goods or
services or as a gift ex: world bank

criminalization - answera process in which certain behaviors are defined as crimes.

Prison Industrial Complex - answerIncarceration generates a lot of money and effects
many companies and jobs.

Military Industrial Complex - answercomprises the policy and monetary relationships
which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that
supports them.

abolitionism - answerto end or rid something. Ex: slavery, today

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