Questions-Education & Agriculture

1. How will governments’ increased preference for nuclear power affect women around the world?

2. What is status of emergency and disaster relief systems worldwide? (The US government's success rate in rehabilitating victims of Hurricane Katrina, disaster relief for victims of tsunami?)

3. How are food coops changing the balance of power between multinationals and small farmers in the United States?

4. What kinds of contributions are third world women making to support conservation movements in their communities?

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Greenbelt Movement in Kenya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Belt_Movement, http://www.lanternbooks.com/detail.html?id=159056040X

5. What is the controversy behind Genetically modified food, and what is the organic food movement? In what ways are ordinary American women supporting sustainable agriculture in the United States?

6. How are women around the world supporting green fuel?

7. How are women in developing countries mobilizing against eco-harmful development projects?

8. How are women in post-conflict countries still dealing with the effects of biological and chemical warfare?

9. How have multinational agri-businesses affected women’s quality of life in developing countries? (their access to land, effects of pesticides: http://www.earthsummit2002.org/wcaucus/Caucus%20Position%20Papers/agriculture/pestices1.html)

10. What impact have global-warming related weather patterns had on women in the developing world?

11. What is Mother Earth and how did that name come to be?

Questions-Journalism

1. Who are the leading women anchors in radio and television today, and what distinguishes their work from their male counterparts?

2. Who are the women journalists working behind the scenes, and what are they doing to shift news reporting to reflect the real lives of women?

3. What are the specifically feminine perspectives on the public sphere that are being expressed in the media? Which perspectives should be expressed, but are not?

4. How has the role of the media developed over time? And how has women’s role developed within it?

5. How can women use the power of the media to change the idea of what is newsworthy (“if it bleeds, it leads”) and shift the focus to our common humanity?

6. How did Amy Goodman, host of Radio/(TV) Pacifica’s Democracy Now! news program become the most powerful voice in alternative news media and a singular advocate for peace, and what influence has she had?

7. What inroads have women journalists made in the media of the developing world – in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America?

8. Who are the major women reporters working in war zones and areas of conflict, and how does their coverage differ from that of their male colleagues?

9. What are the chief print, radio, and television media outlets devoted to women? What impact have they had?

10. Who are the major women documentary film makers working today, and what are their most impressive achievements?

BONUS QUESTION:

Amira Haas is an Israeli journalist, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, who lives and works in Gaza, reporting news from the Palestinian perspective: Is she a force for peace, or a threat to Israel?

Questions-Women's Movements

1. How does feminism differ in the US and the rest of the world – particularly the Global South?
   

2. What are young women around the world doing to shape their own visions for a movement more reflective of their generation?
   

3. What are the landmark achievements of women’s movements across the world?
   

4. What are the arguments made against the women’s movement in both Western and non-Western cultures? How can they be refuted?
   

5. How has gender intersected with race and class in the history of the women’s movement in the US and elsewhere?
   

6. How has the UN moved women’s issues to the forefront, and what is it doing to mainstream gender issues?
   

7. How has the feminist movement evolved in the past century?
   

8. “Is feminism dead”?

9. Which have been the most successful women’s movements in the developing world? What specific changes or improvements have they brought about?

10. Specifically, what has been the role of women’s movements in the cause of peace?

Questions-Development

1. Why do women constitute the majority of the lowest income sector in societies around the world? http://www.rdiland.org/ABOUTRDI/About.html

2. Why have more people fallen below the poverty line in the United States since 2002?

3. What does poverty look like in developed nations?

4. Why are some countries resistant to accepting aid from prominent donor agencies affiliated with the US and Europe or transnational organizations like UN and World Bank?

5. How are some development programs implementing alternatives to the traditional "donor-recipient" model of development, and what lessons do they teach us?

6. What long-term impact do natural disasters have on the lives of low-income women the world around?

7. Why are a majority of displaced people women and young people? What hardships do they have to face?

8. What are the root causes for poverty in the developing world?

9. Who are some of the notable women in the world of development and relief?

10. What are the core services that need to be provided to guarantee the health and vitality of human societies?

Questions-Health

1. How is TB affecting the lives of women worldwide? How does this disease affect the quality of their life?

2. What are the most recent major breakthroughs in science and medicine that have a direct bearing on women’s health in the US and the developing world?

3. Are the chief factors affecting women’s health and life expectancy in the US and the developing world different? And how do childbirth, diet, and access to clean water affect both communities?

4. What role have women had worldwide in the improvement of healthcare, and what are the specific qualities they bring to this field?

5. How has the level of women’s emancipation affected the spread of HIV/AIDS generally and in areas of conflict, especially with regard to rape and non-consensual sex? How has it affected the incidence of breast cancer in comparison with developed countries such as the US?

6. How do exercise and athletics affect women’s health and status worldwide? and how do cultural norms affect women’s participation in such activities?

7. How does Western medicine differ from non-Western healing practices, and how can they be integrated?

8. What lessons can we learn from successful health campaigns?

9. What are the main mental health issues affecting women in the US and worldwide?

10. What are the pregnancy and childbearing issues affecting women’s health in the US and worldwide?

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