WGST 330
GLOBAL FEMINISMS
ASSIGNMENT: Identify current issues in women's status
Using any of the following resources, identify one or more areas of progress--or lack of progress--on women's status since 1995. What is the problem? Are there statistics available? Where, geographically, are the "hot spots" for this issue?
Bring your notes and related printouts or xeroxes to class.
Library resources (on reserve):
- Seager, The State of Women in the World Atlas: New Edition
- Women's Environment and Development Organization, Mapping Progress: Assessing Implementation of the Beijing Platform, 1998
- Conference of Nongovernmental Organizations, Beijing Plus Five: NGO Alternative Global Report, 2000
Online resources:
- Country reports on progress in implementing CEDAW are indexed at this site.
- Amnesty International USA has a page dedicated to CEDAW follow-up including the campaign for US ratification.
- About.com: Women’s Issues, Third World includes news coverage, press releases, and statements from the UN’s Beijing Plus Five conference, June 2000, plus what the United Nations is doing about the status of women.
- Also check out the UN's site on follow-up to the Beijing conference.