Exam 4: Gender Convergence and Role Equity

Traditional gender roles emphasize the woman's:

Discuss the differences between the ideas that gender roles are biologically determined as opposed to socially learned.

Women have:

The belief that roles should be filled on the basis of individual strengths and weaknesses is called:

Role expectations are usually attitudes developed by the spouses after marriage.

In sociological terms, the traditional feminine character traits are labeled:

____ affects male characteristics like large body size and muscle mass.

Betty Friedan's ____ suggested that it was time for the women's movement to abandon strident militancy and consolidate women's gains.

Cox and Demmitt believe that men have:

More women graduate from college than men.

At first, all embryos have the potential to become either sex.

In the traditional working-class family, the wife is expected to:

Gender identity is determined by both biology and society.

Men have:

Rehabilitative alimony and the Displaced Homemaker's Relief Act require the former husband to provide financial help to his ex-wife so she can:

Pay inequality between the sexes is increasing.

Children of immigrants often feel:

Which of the following ideas weakens the biological determinism view of static gender roles?

Divorce laws that require an equal division of property have been linked to:

The flexibility of American gender roles: