Exam 16: Lgbtq2s Employment and Earnings in Canada

Female pronouns (she/her/hers) are often used by male-to-female (MtF) transgender people, while he/him/his pronouns are often used by female-to-male (FtM) transgender people.

Gender-neutral pronouns (they/them/theirs) are usually not preferred by most MtF and FtM people.

Lesbians tend to work more hours than heterosexual women.

What are different ways in which discrimination is experienced by LGBTQIA2S+ people in the workplace? How does this affect their mental health?

Net of work effort, differences in returns to marriage, and motherhood penalties are founded in cultural perceptions of the ideal worker as a cisgender heterosexual man married with children.

What is referred to by 'taste-based discrimination'?

When it comes to education, which of the following is not true?

What is the difference between 'sex' and 'gender'? How would you define 'intersex'?

According to research, which of the following is not true about the wage gap affecting sexual minorities?

What is referred to by 'intersex'?

Sexual minorities have been found to earn less than their heterosexual counterparts.

What was the AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) epidemic referred to when it first became known in 1981?

Most study on gender and sexual minorities in the workplace has concentrated equally on gay men and on lesbian and bisexual individuals.

Intersex children account for 1 to 2 out of every 100 births.

From the 1950s to the late 1990s, the Canadian government stopped discriminating against LGBTQIA2S+ people inside the federal government, since they were no longer considered a threat to national security.

Which one of the following is not a term preferred by people who are described as transgender?

What province was the first to include sexual orientation in their provincial human rights act, and in what year?

Researchers in Canada discovered that gay immigrants fare better than Canadian-born gay people, whereas bisexual immigrants are at a disadvantage in the job market compared to both heterosexual and bisexual Canadians.

Comparing the public and private sectors, which of the following is correct?

What do you think about the gay glass ceiling? How is it that although gay men and lesbians are highly educated, they are still being discriminated against in the workplace?