Exam 9: Work Inside and Outside the Home

Reading "Which Country Will Be the First to Close the Gender Gap-And How?" Vasselina Stefanova Ratcheva and Saadia Zahidi -According to Figure 59C on page 511, industries have used which of the following strategies to achieve gender parity? (Vasselina Stefanova Ratcheva and Saadia Zahidi/"Which Country Will Be the First to Close the Gender Gap-And How?")

Occupational segregation by gender implies the same concept as vertical segregation.

Cross-national comparisons about the gender division of household labor show Russian men doing the most hours of housework per week.

Reading "Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustices, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking" Corinne Schwartz, Emily J. Kennedy, Hannah Britton -In "Aligned Across Differences: Structural Injustices, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking," Corinne Schwartz, Emily J. Kennedy, and Hannah Britton note that their research subjects all share which of the following?

Reading "The Age of Patriarchy: How an Unfashionable Idea Became a Rallying Cry for Feminism Today" Charlotte Higgins -Which of the following is not one of the six areas of patriarchal oppression from Sylvia Walby's Theorizing Patriarchy? Charlotte Higgins/"The Age of Patriarchy: How an Unfashionable Idea Became a Rallying Cry for Feminism Today")

Reading "The Age of Patriarchy: How an Unfashionable Idea Became a Rallying Cry for Feminism Today" Charlotte Higgins -Activists on the right have claimed the term "patriarchy" to argue that gender ranking is ordained by God or biology.

Reading "A Brief History of Working Women" Sharlene N. Hesse-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter -What was the important change after World War II in terms of women's patterns of labor force participation?

Reading "This Is the Hidden Financial Cost of Being an LGBTQ American Today" Anna Swartz -Anna Swartz ("This Is the Hidden Financial Cost of Being an LGBTQ American Today") reports that 1 in 10 LQBTQ workers reported that they have experienced workplace discrimination in the last five years.

Female attorneys tend to be in different specialties from male colleagues, which is an example of vertical segregation.

In 2014 women made up about four fifths of the graduating class of physicians.

Reading "A Brief History of Working Women" Sharlene N. Hesse-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter -What kind of work was the province of African American women in the early twentieth century?

Reading "'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?" Rose Hackman -College students often expect a level of emotional support from female professors that they do not expect from male professors (Rose Hackman/"'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?").

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) passed in 1965.

Reading "Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustices, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking" Corinne Schwartz, Emily J. Kennedy, Hannah Britton -In "Aligned Across Differences: Structural Injustices, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking," Corinne Schwartz, Emily J. Kennedy, and Hannah Britton report that approximately 340,000 people were deported from the U.S. between 2009 and 2014.

Reading "A Brief History of Working Women" Sharlene N. Hesse-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter -By 1900 about 1 in 5 females aged 10 years and over was a paid employee.

Reading "'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?" Rose Hackman -At least two thirds of low-wage workers are female (Rose Hackman/"'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?").

Reading "'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?" Rose Hackman -According to Rose Hackman ("'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?"), in a home setting, emotional labor can be defined as women being expected to do which of the following?

Reading "Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustices, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking" Corinne Schwartz, Emily J. Kennedy, Hannah Britton -In "Aligned Across Differences: Structural Injustices, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking," Corinne Schwartz, Emily J. Kennedy, and Hannah Britton argue that pro-sex work and anti-human trafficking ideologies are incompatible.

Reading "'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?" Rose Hackman -In the U.S., the federal tipped minimum wage is $12.13 per hour (Rose Hackman/"'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?").

Reading "Which Country Will Be the First to Close the Gender Gap-And How?" Vasselina Stefanova Ratcheva and Saadia Zahidi -According to Figure 59A on page 510, which of the following is true? (Vasselina Stefanova Ratcheva and Saadia Zahidi/"Which Country Will Be the First to Close the Gender Gap-And How?")