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    The document discusses gender-based violence (GBV) around the world. It states that GBV is shaped by understandings of gender and gender roles. The effects of GBV are long-lasting and can result in devastating impacts to a victim's life, including social ills and death. According to the World Bank, 35% of women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner or non-partner. There is no nation completely free from GBV.

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    Gender and Society Final Quiz 1

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    The document discusses gender-based violence (GBV) around the world. It states that GBV is shaped by understandings of gender and gender roles. The effects of GBV are long-lasting and can result in devastating impacts to a victim's life, including social ills and death. According to the World Bank, 35% of women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner or non-partner. There is no nation completely free from GBV.

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    The document discusses gender-based violence (GBV) around the world. It states that GBV is shaped by understandings of gender and gender roles. The effects of GBV are long-lasting and can result in devastating impacts to a victim's life, including social ills and death. According to the World Bank, 35% of women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner or non-partner. There is no nation completely free from GBV.

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    In 2011 and 2015, ________ has recorded 40,000 dowry-related deaths.

    A=India

    Activities heavily associated with violence are overwhelmingly shaped by understandings of


    gender and gender roles.

    A=True

    It is a euphemism to prostitution during World War II.

    A=Comfort Women

    FGM is not only a matter of equality among females, but it protects a person's rights to
    health, security, and physical integrity. 

    A=False

     Anyone can be the victim or perpetrator of gender-abused because of class, race, age, or
    religion. 

    A=False

    The effects of gender-based abuse are long-lasting and wide-ranging that leaves the victim
    a devastating life, social ills, and/or death. 

    A=True

    According to the World Bank, _____ % of women worldwide, have experienced either
    physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence.

    A=35%
    _________________________  justifies that GBV are main cause of international homicides and
    the record was set from Nepal and Bangladesh. 

    A= Asia Foundation
     According to the World Bank, globally, ____% of women have been sexually assaulted by
    someone other than a partner. 

    A=7%

    In history, one of the most noteworthy acts of violence against women is the sexual slavery
    that happened in World War II. 

    A=True

    According to the World Bank, ____% of murders of women are committed by an intimate
    partner.

    A=38% 

    In WWII, the minority of young Asian women occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army were
    forced into being the sex slaves.

    False

    Europe also has a long history of gender-based violence including violent periods of
    religious persecution through eras such as the ____________.

    A = witch hunts

    Violence can and does occur for females only.

    A= False

    The Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that a third of all women in Australia have
    been assaulted physically and a fifth of all women have been assaulted sexually.

    A=True

    In Canada, most provinces have passed legislation based on Saskatchewan’s Victims of


    Domestic Violence Act (1995), which increases the options and material support available to
    victims.

    A=True
    European countries with a prevalence of GDV are Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and
    Maldives. 

    A=False

    There is no nation free from gender-based violence.

    A=True

    It is the harm inflicted upon individuals and groups that is connected to normative


    understandings of their gender.

    A=Gender-based violence 

    South Africa was also found to have the highest rate of rape in the world at 132.4 incidents
    of rape per 1,000 people. 

    A=False

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