3. Knowledge check: Gender terms and concepts

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Gender Terms and Concepts
Knowledge Recap
Now that you’ve completed this session, test your knowledge on this subject. Taking this quiz will reinforce key points and identify gaps in learning.

Question

Parents are often eager to learn the _____ of a new baby.

Gender

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Sex

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Question

Whose health is affected by gender inequality?

Women’s

Men’s

Girls’ and boys’

All of the above: Women’s, men’s, and girls’ and boys’.

Question

Gender norms are:

Learned

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Socially constructed

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Both

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None of the above

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Question

How would you categorize an intervention that brings about an increase in mothers belonging to women's groups?

Reproductive health outcome

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Gender outcome

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Question

How would you categorize an intervention in which maternal mortality ratios improved?

Reproductive health outcome

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Gender outcome

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True or false?

The International Conference on Population and Development marked a shift to a more holistic health-based framework that links gender to health.

True: The ICPD in 1994 highlighted the integral role gender should play in improving health and development worldwide.

True or false?

Men and women are both affected by gender norms, but women are disproportionately disadvantaged by gender norms.

True: Men, women, and children are affected by gender norms; however, women are disproportionately disadvantaged by inequitable gender norms.

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These materials were adapted from the Global Health eLearning Center, U.S. Agency for International Development.

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