Exam 7: Gender Inequality

Which of the following is referred to as gender?

Which of the following terms refers to the belief that there are innate psychological, behavioural, and/or intellectual differences between women and men, and that these differences connote the superiority of one group and the inferiority of the other?

The more important a political office, the less likely a woman will hold it.

Which of the following perspectives emphasizes that in order for gender inequalities to exist, women must be made to look and feel intellectually inferior?

Which of the following does cultural sexism support?

Staying home and caring for children is an example of which type of role?

Men are more likely than women to be a victim of a violent crime.

Which perspective says that male dominance and female subordination are shaped by the relationship men and women have to the production process?

Which of the following hypotheses argues that women are paid less because the work they perform is socially defined as less valuable than the work performed by men?

According to a recent United Nations (2002) report, over 60 million young girls, predominantly in Asia, are listed as "missing" and are likely the victims of infanticide or neglect.

How has your gender influenced your experience in school, your academic performance and interests, your extracurricular activities, and your career aspirations? How do you think these aspects of your life would have been different if you were born the other sex?

Males who are victims of sexual harassment are not covered by current Canadian legislation.

According to Purcell and Stewart (1990), boys are much less free to explore gender differences than females.

Which of the following is an example of a major criticism directed at "second wave" feminism?

Most of the "second wave" feminists were white, middle-class women.

Which type of sexism refers to the ways in which the organization of society, and specifically its institutions, subordinates individuals and groups based on their sex classification?

Nursing would be a good example of a pink-collar job.

In Canada, which of the following occupations has four times as many women as men?

Queer theorists would argue that gender is which of the following?

Which of the following statements reflects the "relative resources approach"?