Exam 7: Gender Inequality

Which of the following terms refers to an individual's biological identity?

Which of the following is referred to as occupational sex segregation?

Which piece of legislation contains sexual harassment laws?

Three explanations for the continued traditional division of labour in families are: a) the "time-availability approach," b) the "relative resources approach," and c) the "gender role ideology approach." Which explanation do you feel best explains why women continue to bear primary responsibility for housework and childcare?

According to the structural-functionalist perspective, what type of family power arrangement is more commonly found in industrialized nations?

In which year were women granted the right to vote in federal elections in Canada?

What did a 2005 United Nations report find concerning how societies treat women and men?

In the world's least developed countries, only 70 percent as many women as men are literate.

Which hypothesis sees differences between the earnings of women and men as the result of differences between women's and men's levels of education, skills, training, and work experience?

In which province(s) were women over the age of 21 first granted the right to vote in provincial elections?

According to the "relative resources" approach, women do more work around the house than men because they have the least amount of power.

What are the three hypotheses frequently used by sociologists to explain why the income gender gap continues to exist?

Men in traditional versus dual-income relationships are more likely to report being satisfied with household task arrangements.

Which of the following is an example of a "pink-collar" job?

The textbook discusses an experiment conducted at the University of Waterloo that showed male and female university students, all of whom were good at math, some advertisements that were either gender-stereotyped or gender-neutral. According to this study, what happened when female students who had seen the female-stereotyped advertisements subsequently took a math test?

What is meant by the terms "expressive role" and "instrumental role"?

Employment equity legislation seeks to eliminate sexual harassment.

Who was Canada's first female prime minister?

Identify two types of sexual harassment.

Unwanted comments of a sexual nature would be a good example of "quid pro quo" sexual harassment.