003 - Gender equality
and anti-trafficking
Geographic Knowledge and Understanding
Policies associated with managing population change, focusing on:
- gender equality policies
- anti-trafficking policies
Concept
Regions that embrace gender equality create the potential for a more powerful future. Anti-Trafficking policies create the possibility for positive change between places.
Key Terminology
Human Trafficking
Human Smuggling - this one we will define by watching the youtube clip in Activity Two.
Define the key terms above by using the 'useful link' below:
Useful Link
Activity One - Describe - Inequality
Being equal between people is something that is perhaps or at least should be seen as normal. Unfortunately, very few countries give equal rights to genders and it is often women who are losing out. It is a well documented fact that women earn 9.8% less than men in the UK and it can be as much as 18.2% less in the USA. In India this figure rises to between 24-26% difference and even in the socialist country of China the gender pay gap is 12%. Even Switzerland which is often seen as a very economically developed and equal society pays women on average 12.5% less than men. But it is not just finances that women lose out in.
We do need to be careful when comparing the data provided concerning the gender pay differences. There is something that is called unadjusted and adjusted pay gaps. The unadjusted takes into account the 'raw' data - the overall differences in pay which doesn't take into account the different professions, education and experience of people. It is a little like trying to compare brussels sprouts and artichokes - with the similarities being minimal - originally from the Mediterranean region, they don't like the cold and I don't like to eat them. Whereas the adjusted pay gap figures compares how much the genders are paid for doing the same job.
Mind map the different areas that women currently do not have equal rights for. Do this in general to begin with.
Now watch the two youtube clips below and write down areas that you may have missed.
Useful Resources
Activity Two - Describe - Smuggling/Trafficking
I think we can all agree that human trafficking is wrong and surely the process should never have existed in our history. Yet the trafficking of people for forced labour or to work in the sex trade is still prevalent. Smuggling is also something we are seeing more and more as people try to get into regions which are economically more stable for a perceived 'higher quality of life'. Smuggling holds an element of choice but trafficking does not.
Watch the two youtube clips below and mind map the different aspects of human trafficking along with what human trafficking actually is.
Can you spot human trafficking?
What is human trafficking?
Activity Three - Research
Now you know what the issues are and why it has been added to the DP Geography guide is important to have information about real-world policies. The UN does have an impact on government policies. In fact, the UN Sustainable Development Goals have impacted the EU's policies which in turn has impacted national policies. Global thinking can at times effect positive local change. The group is going to be divided up into six teams and each team will be given a specific scale and policy area to research and record their findings. All findings will be recorded on the note taking grids created by Mr. Allaway - geographyalltheway.com.
Global Scale - SDG 5.1 - End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
Regional Scale - European Institute for Gender Equality
National or Local Scale - Iceland
Global Scale - SDG 8.7 - Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking coupled with the UN protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons
Regional Scale - European Commission - Fighting trafficking in human beings
National or Local Scale - USA - Blue Campaign
Once the research has been recorded, each team will be asked to present their findings and the listeners will make notes on what is being said.
Useful Resources
Gender Equality
Anti-Trafficking
Exam Style Question
To what extent can anti-trafficking policies ever be successful? [10 marks]
Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Policies Worksheet - Thank you Mr. Allaway - Please visit www.geographyalltheway.com for the complete lesson from Richard Allaway.