Exam 3: Gender Identities and Families

Among immigrants, males may lose some masculine _______ because of the changing gender roles upon entering the U.S.

Gender refers only to male or female anatomy and physiology.

Research finds that black couples prefer more role ________ and power sharing than whites.

__________ character traits are also called expressive character traits

Beginning in infancy and throughout childhood, identify several ways parents and teachers socialize their male and female children differently.

Michael is a stay-at-home father and feels pressure from society to watch football on TV, enjoy action movies, play basketball on the weekends, and bring home a bigger paycheck than his corporate executive wife. What is this societal pressure called?

Parents, teachers, and pediatricians wrestle with issues of ________ and how much children should be able to define themselves if they are like the "other" gender.

__________ character traits are also called instrumental character traits.

Some analysts concerned about boys behavior in school note that

Although women outnumber men in college today,

Men are expected to have _________ character traits like strength, self-confidence, assertiveness, and ambition.

_______ sees individuals as enacting culturally fashioned scripts and socially prescribed roles in front of others.

Women _____ men in the proportion of the population who are college graduates.

According to the text, more and more women are entering nontraditional occupations such as

Many transgendered persons prefer the use of pronouns such as "they" and "them" or invented ones such as "ze" or "xe."

The text lists three proposals to help boys to adjust better to our educational system. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Consider the statement: "Due to social pressures, firms frequently have to hire underqualified women." This illustrates __________ sexism.

Contemporary sexism denies that gender discrimination persists and includes the belief that women

__________ are families in which one or more family members is or are transgendered.

After various factors associated with earnings are taken into account, research has found as much as a _______  differential in earnings that is usually attributed to discrimination.