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 * TASK 8 - GENDER EQUALITY**

Part 1: Create a subtitle for Task 8 -- Call it TASK 8 - GENDER EQUALITY

Part 2: Tracking global data on gender equality is challenging. Read this article to find out how some organizations have ranked gender equality. []

Part 3: The Gender Equality Index With your teacher, examine the data from Social Watch. [] Note the three categories they use to measure inequalities between males and females. They are __education__, __economic participation__ and __empowerment.__ What do these three categories mean?

Social Watch does not include all the data we need for our Development Wikis. It only has 6 out of the 10 countries we are studying.
 * Is your country listed? If so, take a screen shot of the Gender Equality Index.
 * If your country is NOT listed, write that "Data is Missing."

Part 4: The Global Gender Gap Look at the World Economic Forum's "Gender Gap Report 2010". Look at the four measurements used to score the Gender Gap. They are __Economic Participation and Opportunity__, __Educational Attainment__, __Health and Survival__ and __Political Empowerment__. What do these categories mean?

Using the detailed rankings of 2010, find your country and create a hand-drawn graph displaying this information. Scan your completed graph and add it to your wiki page. Look at this example:

Include the raw data here: The Global Gender Gap Overall Score: Economic Participation and Opportunity: Educational Attainment: Health and Survival: Political Empowerment:

Part 5: Maternal Mortality Rates Go to the CIA World Factbook and find the Maternal Mortality Rate for you country. How does this compare with the rest of the world?

SOUTH AFRICA EXAMPLE The Gender Equality Index from Social Watch.
 * Data is Missing for South Africa.

The Global Gender Gap
 * Overall Score: .7535
 * Economic Participation and Opportunity: .6727
 * Educational Attainment: .9962
 * Health and Survival: .9677
 * Political Empowerment: .3773

The Maternal Mortality Rate for South Africa is: 410 deaths out of 100,000 live births South Africa is ranked 35 in the world - meaning there are 34 countries with //higher// death rates.