9:15 - 11:50 C Block Legal Studies
12:30 - 3:05 B Block Human Geography
C Block Legal Studies - Today we'll review the difference between prejudice and discrimination. We'll look at discrimination in Canada focusing on the Persons case and women's issues of injustice connected employment and pay equity, sexual harassment, and discrimination against pregnant women. On a global scale consider this:
From the UN HDI GII...
"Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. Girls and women have made major strides since 1990, but they have not yet gained gender equity. The disadvantages facing women and girls are a major source of inequality. All too often, women and girls are discriminated against in health, education, political representation, labour market, etc. with negative consequences for development of their capabilities and their freedom of choice".
UNICEF USA: Towards Gender Equality from UNICEF USA on Vimeo.
The GII measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development:
(from the OHRC) While sexual harassment occurs across different occupations and industry sectors, research suggests that it is more common in certain types of employment. For example, sexual harassment complaints are high in traditionally male-dominated work environments, such as the military, policing, firefighting, mining and construction work. So we'll watch the CBC documentary "The Fire Within" to see just one example of workplace harassment that women must face.
I'll have you work on the following questions:
1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?
The GII measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development:
- Reproductive health; measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates;
- Empowerment; measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and older with at least some secondary education and
- Economic status; expressed as labour market participation and measured by labour force participation rate of female and male populations aged 15 years and older.
Better educated women tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn higher incomes, have fewer children, marry at a later age, and enable better health care and education for their children, should they choose to become mothers. All these factors combined can help lift households, communities, and nations out of poverty. According to UNESCO estimates, 130 million girls between the age of 6 and 17 are out of school and 15 million girls of primary-school age—half of them in sub-Saharan Africa— will never enter a classroom. Poverty remains the most important factor for determining whether a girl can access an education. Studies consistently reinforce that girls who face multiple disadvantages — such as low family income, living in remote or underserved locations, disability or belonging to a minority ethno-linguistic group — are farthest behind in terms of access to and completion of education.
(from the OSSTF) In 2016, a report conducted by Statistics Canada showed that one in five Canadian women had been harassed at work in the past year, compared with one in eight Canadian men. The women who were most vulnerable to this type of abuse were young, single or unmarried. Indigenous women and those persons who identify as LGTBQ+2 were also disproportionately targeted by harassment.
I'll have you work on the following questions:
1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?
*warning there is potty mouth in the following videos so please be aware and watch with care
To help check out, Supreme Court orders female firefighter rehired
To help check out, Supreme Court orders female firefighter rehired
From the Canadian Human Rights Reporter:
The Supreme Court of Canada held that the Government of British Columbia's aerobic standard used to test the fitness of forest firefighters discriminated on the basis of sex, and further that the Government failed to show that the discriminatory standard is justified as a bona fide occupational requirement ("BFOR").
Canadian Labour Relations: Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Human Rights in British Columbia: Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
Most B.C. women have experienced gender discrimination: Poll
HUMAN RIGHTS CODE [RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 210
B Block Human Geography - Today I lose you from 12:45 to 1:45. The Comox Valley School District has secured the services of Kerri Isham of Power Up Education to supplement the Sexual Health Curriculum this year for the Grade 11 and 12 students in the district. Today, your topic in a Zoom meeting is the impact of pornography on sexuality and relationships and either you or your parents will be able to contact Kerri Isham with follow-up questions/concerns or comments at kerri@powerupeducation.com The purpose of sexual health education is to:
- Provide students the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes they will need to make and act upon decisions that promote sexual health throughout their lives.
- Provide age-appropriate information to promote healthy behavior.
- Reduce the negative impact media has on our young people (explicit, unrealistic and often undignified sexual images and messages).
- Allow students to talk openly and honestly about sexuality.
- Positively impact the health and well-being of the community.
The second part of today is the next day in the learning commons/library looking at the 2020 World Population Data (using both the PRB Interactive Map and the pdf data sheet) to see current trends and numbers in world population.
For the last question you'll need to choose one of the following demographic variables using the World Population Data Sheet and create a choropleth map showing the distribution of that indicator on a world outline map. The PRB World Population Data map is an example of a Choropleth Map. Use it to help you create yours, just select the indicator you wish to create and it will make a choropleth map that you can recreate.
Infant Mortality
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Total Fertility Rate
Life Expectancy
For the last question you'll need to choose one of the following demographic variables using the World Population Data Sheet and create a choropleth map showing the distribution of that indicator on a world outline map. The PRB World Population Data map is an example of a Choropleth Map. Use it to help you create yours, just select the indicator you wish to create and it will make a choropleth map that you can recreate.
Infant Mortality
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Total Fertility Rate
Life Expectancy
The instructions are in the week 2 package but feel free to ask me in class today. Good luck!
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