Exam 9: Gender Stratification: Shehe Who Goes First

Women are considered a minority group.

What is "doing gender"? Name and explain one instance in which you or a close friend "did gender."

According to the text, how does anticipatory socialization impact future gender roles? Provide examples.

Zari was a successful lawyer who has a five-year-old daughter. Since her daughter entered school, her career has suffered. She was recently demoted because the school nurse, Melissa, demands that Zari pick up her daughter from school when she is ill and Zari's boss expects her to never leave work. The nurse refuses to call Zari's husband because "a sick girl needs her mama." Zari is experiencing:

Discrimination practices that are no longer allowed but continue to affect people today are:

Which of the following is the clearest example of childhood gender socialization?

Compare and contrast how issues relating to sex, gender, and sexuality are present at the micro, meso, and macro levels of the social world. Provide examples.

Based on the work that has been done in Africa, how could the United States improve political representation among women?

The statement, "Gender division of labor exists in modern societies because it is efficient and useful to have different-but-complementary male and female roles" most closely reflects:

Name one meso-level agent of socialization that teaches children about normalized gender roles. How does this agent socialize children into masculine or feminine roles?

On average, men earn more money than women do for performing the same job with the same level of education and experience. Explain this phenomenon from three different sociological perspectives (symbolic interactionist, structural-functionalist, and conflict theories).

The Internet is a way to break down gender barriers because women and men use it in equal amounts and in equal ways.

Compare and contrast homophobia and heterosexism. Provide examples.

According to the text, the nation with the highest percentage of women in the national parliament or congress is Denmark.

Social forces that keep women from reaching the highest levels of corporate and public responsibility are known as the:

Compare and contrast side-effect and past-in-present discrimination. How do the social institutions of religion and work relate in a way that may result in side-effect discrimination, especially toward women?

The statement, "By keeping women in traditional gender roles, men maintain control over institutions and resources" most closely reflects:

The statement, "Each sex plays a complementary role to ensure the survival and efficiency of society" is a tenet of which sociological theory?

Discrimination done deliberately because of cultural images of women as inferior to or fundamentally different from men is:

According to the text, toys and games prepare children through anticipatory socialization for future gender roles.