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Female Genital Mutilation
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The removal of the clitoris or the sewing up of the vagina in order to conform to certain cultural or religious beliefs.
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Female circumcision is usually carried out on females from the ages of _____ to _____.
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Infancy to teenage years
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Some women who are circumsized are _____ women even though most aren't.
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Older
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In Africa, an estimated ______ girls 10 years old and above have undergone female genital mutilation.
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92 million
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Social pressures:
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People feel they have to conform to what everyone else is doing around them.
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-There is a __________________ that is supposed to restore sexual sensation to women who have been mutilated.
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Clitoris-reconstruction surgery
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Sometimes girls have _______ like _______ and ____ ________ to 'celebrate' their female circumcision as a rite of passage.
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-Parties -Quinceaneras -Baht Mitzvahs
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Gender wage gap:
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The difference between what men and women make at their jobs.
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The older a woman is, directly correlates with the _____ the pay gap becomes.
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wider
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There is a gender wage gap in:
A. Almost all countries B. No countries C. All countries D. America only |
C. All countries
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Women work __ extra hours of work a week than men do.
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15
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The number of working women keeps increasing. _ /_of women are employed.
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2/3
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