Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Women in politics

Sue Witmer who teaches in Manchester, PA, asked recently about resources for teaching about participation rates of women. Well, this won't specifically address the countries in the Advanced Placement course, but it does offer an opportunity to get students involved in a little research and comparison project. And when that's done, the students could be asked to identify correlations between the rates of participation by women and other parts of political cultures.

At the World Economic Forum site, you can download the rankings in PDF or excel forms.

Nordic Nations Remain Gender-Equality Leaders
Iceland and three other Nordic countries continue to lead the world in gender equality, and the United States made significant progress over the last year in reducing economic and social gaps between women and men, according to a report to be issued Tuesday by the World Economic Forum...
The Global Gender Gap Report 2010.

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