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Should you be a Women's Studies major or minor:

1. Who was the first woman to run for president of the United States of America?
Victoria Woodhull
Geraldine Ferraro
Hillary Clinton

2. When were U.S. women granted the right to vote?
1820
1880
1920

3. Who was the first woman elected to congress?
Susan B. Anthony
Jeanette Rankin
Elizabeth Blackwell

4. How many women living today have undergone genital mutilation?
1 million
20 million
2 million

5. What percent of the world's illiterate are women?
60%
50%
40%

6. What is the ratio of females to males that die of malnutrition each year worldwide?
4 to 1
4 to 2
1 to 2

7. What percent of rapes are committed by someone known to the victim?
73%
80%
50%

8. What percentage of women undergo intimate partner violence?
15%
10%
25%

9. Who was the first black woman elected to Congress?
Rosa Parks
Ida Wells-Barnett
Shirley Chisholm

10. What law provides for gender equity in athletics at the high school and collegiate levels?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Title IX of the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act (formerly the Education Amendments of 1972)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

 

 


Women's Studies
Burkhardt Building
Room 108
765.285.5451

wsintern@bsu.edu
M-F 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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