Exam 9: Gender Stratification: Shehewho Goes First

Zari was a successful lawyer who has a 5-year-old daughter. Since her daughter entered school, Zari's career has suffered. Zari was recently demoted because the school nurse, Melissa, demands that Zari pick up her daughter from school when she is ill, and Zari's boss expects her to never leave work. The nurse refuses to call Zari's husband because "a sick girl needs her mama." Zari is experiencing:

In the United States, women are using the Internet to reinforce their private lives and men are using the Internet to engage in the public sphere.

According to the text, women's athletic programs and scholarship opportunities have now surpassed those of men.

Which of the following is an example of institutionalized discrimination?

The statement "By keeping women in traditional gender roles, men maintain control over institutions and resources" most closely reflects:

Discrimination done deliberately because of cultural images of women as inferior to or fundamentally different from men is:

Every workplace with women has a gendered configuration.

The statement "Gender is socially constructed" is a tenet of which sociological theory?

From a structural-functional perspective, each sex has a role to play in the interdependent groups and institutions of society.

The process by which people learn the cultural norms, attitudes, and behaviors appropriate to their gender is:

Mary is fired for wearing skirts that are too short to conform to her office dress code. This is a form of institutionalized gender discrimination.

Thomas is a boy who was ridiculed for wearing a skirt to school one day. Which of the following did Thomas violate?

On average, men earn more money than women do for performing the same job with the same level of education and experience. Explain this phenomenon from three different sociological perspectives (symbolic interactionist, structural-functionalist, and conflict theories).

Mass media are major agents of socialization into gender roles.

Based on the work that has been done in Africa, how could the United States improve political representation among women?

According to the text, women hold what percentage of top corporate jobs?

The fact that the only female in a boardroom is almost always expected to make coffee, even if she is a high-level executive, is a form of institutionalized gender discrimination.

Discuss what gender messages may be transmitted by the toys that girls and boys play with as they are growing up. Give two specific examples.

In which of the following ways are women and girls portrayed in many children's books?

Northern European countries are world leaders when it comes to gender equity in government.