Exam 13: Gender Stratification

On average, males are both taller and heavier than females.

The socialization process links gender to personal identity

In 2011, women were a majority of people elected to Congress.

What is the form of social organization in which females dominate males?

Today in the United States, only about 10 percent of women with young children work for income.

Today, women represent ______ of all students on college campuses across the United States.

On average, young men show greater ____ ability than young women; young women show greater _____ ability than young men.

Most cases of female genital mutilation occur in

What criticisms of pornography are made in the text?

Sexual harassment is an important social issue because

When did feminism begin as a social movement in the United States?

What is the major insight of intersection theory? Provide earnings data to support this approach.

In which of the following job categories are the workers mostly women?

Which factor accounts for the greatest share of the difference in the earnings of working women and men in the United States?

The beauty myth is the idea that beauty is the key to success in a career.

Most sociological research suggests that gender is socially constructed and is therefore subject to change.

In the United States in 2009, women in the labor force working full time earned _______ to every dollar men earned.

In the United States today, two-thirds of physicians are women.

Employed married women do less housework than employed married men.

While playing in peer groups, girls are less likely to play the "win-lose" games favored by boys.