Gender equity in the US,”- Of the 535 people in the U.S. Congress as of2013, only 98 members, or 18.3 percent, werewomen.- As of 2012, Canadian women constituted 25percent of the House of Commons inParliament- Neither does well by comparison to the worldat large- On average, U.S. and Canadian female workersearn about 80 cents for every dollar that maleworkers earn for doing the same jobwomen now represent more than half of the North- American labor force

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climate change and urbanization,”- North America produces 26 percentof the world’s greenhouse gases, even though it only has 5 percent ofthe world’s population. This is related to the region’s pattern of urbandevelopment and its fossil fuel-dependent industrial and agriculturalproduction methods.- While many parts of North America are exposed to multiple climate changeimpacts

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food and sustainability,”- Shifts to mechanized agriculture in North America affected the workforce greatly. From 1790 to 1910, family-owned farms provided food for domestic consumption and export. Today, these farms are being replaced by mechanized, corporate agribusiness.-Green revolutiontechnologies and strategiesto increase yields (such asirrigation, computerization,GMO seeds, chemicalfertilizers

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People of North America,”The Bering land bridge allowed hunters to enter NorthAmerica from northeastern Asia about 25,000 years ago.About 3,000 years ago, domesticated crops were introduced.■ There were sizeable settlements in North America withspecialized economies.■ After European occupation of the continent, settlers, with theassistance of slave labor, built villages, towns, port cities

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people of North America,”The rapid expansion of European settlement was facilitated by the vulnerability of NativeAmerican populations to European diseases. Having long been isolated from the rest of theworld, Native Americans had no immunity to diseases such as measles and smallpox.Transmitted by Europeans and Africans who had built up immunity to them, these diseaseskilled up to 90 percent of Native Americans within the first 100 years of contact.Roughly 18 million Native Americans lived in North America in 1492. By1542, after just a few Spanish expeditions, only half that numbersurvived. By 1907, slightly more than 400,000, or a mere 2 percent ofthe 1492 population

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