WorksheetsAPHG 2.8 Women and Demographic Change
Total questions: 1
Worksheet time: 9mins
1-6.
Answer the questions below after watching the video
Compared to Egalitarian gender roles, Tradition gender roles are more...
unequal, with women held below men
unequal, with men held below women
equal between men and women
there is no difference
Why does access to education usually decrease the amount of babies a woman has?
Due to strict gender segregation, women in education have few opportunities to come in contact with men.
The desire to learn and make money will always far outweigh the desire to raise children.
Due to education, women grow increasingly skeptical of the idea that their worth is measured by the amount of children they can raise.
Education does not impact birthrates.
TWO processes that typically decrease fertility rates among women include:
Family planning
Access to food
Employment
Transportation
Future Vice President, J.D. Vance (Ohio) - In 2021, suggested that declining birth rates in the U.S. were due to women focusing more on careers than on family life. It aimed at childless women, saying that society was encouraging women to prioritize career success over having children, and suggested that this shift was negatively affecting the country’s demographics.
Choose all that apply:
How do cultural expectations around motherhood influence total fertility rates (TFR)?
They decrease TFR by encouraging delayed childbearing.
They have no impact on TFR.
They decrease TFR by promoting career over family life.
They increase TFR by encouraging women to have more children.
They increase TFR by promoting the expectation that women should stay out of the workforce to raise children.
True or False: Access to healthcare and education typically cause an increase in infant mortality rates and maternal mortality rates.
True
False
Women typically engage in...
urban to rural migration
rural to urban migration
migration over national borders
sedentary lifestyles
