Exam 10: Gender Stratification

In the United States, women gained the right to vote in 1820.

Friedrich Engels claimed that capitalism

In the United States, on average, males live longer than females.

The concept "comparable worth" refers to the idea that

Pornography is of concern to

In the United States, most engineers, architects, and surgeons are men.

On average, do women or men live longer?

In 2008, U.S. women earned 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.

Since very few societies have existed without patriarchy, we must conclude that it is inevitable.

Talcott Parsons described gender in terms of

Which of the following statements is the best reason to view women as a minority in the United States?

Which of the following job categories has mostly women as workers?

It is probably correct to say that over the course of the last century, there was more change in women's labor force participation rate than in men's.

On average, males are both taller and heavier than females.

In the United States, working women are concentrated in administrative support and service jobs.

The point in describing gender in the Israeli kibbutzim is to show that

Margaret Mead argued that gender was mostly a matter of biology rather than culture.

In about_______ of all cases of rape and attempted rape on U.S. college campuses, a woman knows her attacker.

Talcott Parsons described gender in terms of complementarity.

Gender refers simply to whether people are female or male.