Exam 4: Our Gendered Identities

Michael feels secure in his masculinity, even though he enjoys classical music, paints in his free time, and is a stay-at-home father. Yet Michael feels pressure 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?

Which theory of gender contains the concepts of the looking-glass self and role-taking, where children play out and internalize social roles in their family and society?

Today, women compose __________ percent of Congress.

The first National Conference on Men and Masculinity was held in 1995.

The text concludes that only society, and not biology, creates gender-linked characteristics and roles.

Dorothy perceives herself as being ultra-feminine, based on society's definitions of appropriate gender roles. Dorothy's perceptions are linked to her

Somewhere between 1 percent and 4 percent of live births are intersexual.

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

During the 1980s, a new cultural message about men emerged. According to this message, the "__________" male or "new man" is emotionally sensitive and expressive, valuing tenderness and equal relationships with women.

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

Boys and girls tend to play separately and differently.

In recent decades, the earnings gap between men and women

Evolutionary perspectives stress that stratification and the division of labor in society shape genderroles. In this view, it is __________ that produce the gendered behavior we see.

Men continue to dominate corporate America.

Sociologist Barrie Thorne observes that, especially in elementary schools, many cross-sexual interaction rituals are based on and reaffirm boundaries and differences between girls and boys. Thorne calls these rituals

The pivotal expectation in __________ for a woman requires her to offer emotional support.

The cultural script for the "strong black woman" emphasized certain qualities. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Recent research points out the continued disparity in earnings between the sexes with women, on average earning just _________cents for every dollar a man earns

Consider the statement: "It is ridiculous for a woman to run a locomotive and for a man to darn socks." This illustrates __________ sexism.

Which of the following is NOT an example given by the text of women in nontraditional roles?