Exam 8: How Does Gender Impact the People We Live Our Lives With

In Vietnam, children of transnational mothers are more likely to live with a grandparent while their mothers are working abroad.

The doctrine of separate spheres is racially biased in that it assumes men of all racial categories have had equal access to earning a wage that would allow him to support his family.

_______ is defined as a sense that certain tasks are more appropriate for one gender than the other.

Women with children aged one and over now have the exact same rate of labor force participation as childless women.

One of the concerns of China's impending marriage squeeze is ______.

Wage labor made young men less dependent upon their parents and allowed them greater choice in marriage partner.

The network of grandmothers, sisters, aunts, or cousins who shared the tasks of child rearing in the African American community came to be known in the 1980s and 1990s as which of the following?

In Black lesbian families, biological mothers often provide more childcare.

A group of people not related by blood, marriage, or adoption, but who think of themselves as family are known as ______.

Which theoretical perspective would say that even household chores and childcare are ways we perform gender?

The tendency, sometimes enforced by norms or rules, to marry only others within the same social group is known as:

Transnational mothers have redefined motherhood to include which role more commonly associated with fatherhood?

The only industrialized nations that provide no federally mandated paid parental leave are ______.

Discuss some of the differences in marriage and partnership across the world as discussed in the text. How might gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and/or other concepts from the text shape these differences?

A way of dividing housework and childcare that is based on personal choice, aptitude, and fairness rather than the gendered division of labor is known as _______.

A legal partnership freely chosen on the basis of love and compatibility, and composed of a sole male breadwinner plus economically dependent wife and children is known as _______ .

In 2010, the sex ratio at birth (SRB) in China was 118 (meaning 118 men for every 100 women).

A pattern in which women tend to "marry up" while men "marry down" in mate selection is known as ______.

When the _______ is imbalanced, it can cause a ________.

Women worldwide are more likely to work in the formal economy.