Quiz: Raising Our Half the Sky Project

AAUW Columbia Branch

Raising Our Half the Sky Project

 The following multiple-choice questions come from statistics cited in Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, 2009. Please mark the answer you think is correct.

1. In parts of the world baby girls are killed or allowed to die.  That results in a gender imbalance. The ratio of males to females is

    1. 115 to 100 in China and 105 to 100 in Pakistan
    2. 107 to 100 in China and 111 to 100 in Pakistan
    3. 104 to 100 in China and 102 to 100 in Pakistan

 

  1. Approximately 40% of people today live on about
    1. $750 a year
    2. $2,000 a year
    3. $5,000 a year

 

  1. More women aged 15 to 44 die from
    1. cancer
    2. malaria
    3. male violence

 

  1. The UN Population Fund estimates the annual number of “honor” killings is
    1. 50
    2. 500
    3. 5,000

 

  1. In 2008 the UN declared rape
    1. “a crime against humanity”
    2. “domestic abuse”
    3. “a weapon of war”

 

  1. In Ireland, a woman has 1 chance in 47,600 of dying in childbirth; in Niger
    1. 1 in 7
    2. 1 in  70
    3. 1 in 4,800

 

  1. In the United States, within a year after the women of a state received the right to vote, local public health spending rose by
    1. 35%
    2. 25%
    3. 5%

 

1. b  2. a   3. c   4. c (The authors estimated 6,000.) 5. c  6. a  (b—India; c —U.S.)   7. b