Gender Medicine. Gender equality: More women in top posts but more progress needed. GEORGE TOWN: The percentage of women holding top positions is improving but there is still a wide gap between the fairer sex and their male counterparts. Good Governance and Gender Equality Society vice-president Prof Dr Cecilia Ng said only 10.8% of MPs were women, adding that they only comprised 12% of those holding senior posts in the local authorities. In Penang, she said only 7.5% of the assemblymen were women. “In Penang, female councillors only make up 16% at the Penang Municipal Council and 12% at the Seberang Prai Municipal Council. We are still far from achieving the target of women constituting at least 30% at the decision-making level. “We hope to have a 50-50 share between men and women in all fields one day,” she told newsmen after Penang Municipal Council president Patahiyah Ismail launched the half-day workshop on “Including Gender in Good Governance” here Saturday.
Stereotypes and Prejudices. || Return to The Holocaust--A Guide for Teachers || Synopsis Genocide is the ultimate expression of hatred and violence against a group of people. This chapter traces the steps by which a group becomes the target of prejudice, discrimination, persecution and violence. The general concepts of stereotypes, scapegoats, prejudices, and discrimination are explored in a manner which will enable students to understand behavior and to condemn such behavior which is inappropriate in a modern, pluralistic society. Students will learn that: 1. 2. 3. 4. The Holocaust was the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis through an officially sanctioned, government-ordered, systematic plan of mass annihilation.
The purpose of this chapter is to teach that the genocide we know as the Holocaust had roots in attitudes and behavior which we see around us every day. Stereotypes A "stereotype" is a generalization about a person or group of persons. Discrimination Racism Immigration Quotas Based on Racism Arthur D. Okoronkwo-Cecilia-C.pdf (application/pdf Object)