Exam 9: Gender

What is the private-public dichotomy? In what kinds of societies does it occur, and in what kinds of societies is it absent? What factors contribute to its presence or absence, and what are its effects on gender roles?

Are certain sexual preferences more natural than others? What factors compel some societies to deviate from the heterosexual norm found in most human societies?

Why should the numbers from Kinsey's research be considered merely illustrative, rather than statistically accurate?

With the baby boom and the increase in industrialization, women have contributed more and more to the workplace while receiving pay equal to that of their male coworkers.

Across differing societies, women generally dominate the practice of subsistence labor.

What is meant by the term feminization of poverty?

Regarding sexual orientation, all of the following are true EXCEPT that

What position do most anthropologists take on the matter of whether male dominance is a cultural universal? What is your own view on the matter? What evidence can you put forth to support your view?

Even though women represent more than half the U.S.workforce, single-parent families headed by women represent more than half the households below the poverty line.

Flexibility in sexual expression seems to be an aspect of our primate heritage.

When compared to other kinds of societies, all the following are true about foragers EXCEPT that