Question 1

The milk-goat project in Malawi was an attempt to address which basic social problem?

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A)  toddler malnutrition 
B)  sexual violence against women 
C)  starvation across the entire population 
D)  drought 
E)  lack of job opportunities

Question 2

What is gender stratification? If women are not allowed to hold important positions in religious activities,does that indicate stratification? Does the prohibition of women from the same economic activities as men always indicate stratification?

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Question 3

Approximately 15 percent of all children in Malawi suffer from malnourishment.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Men in the United States are better paid than women,even though the gap has been narrowing in recent decades.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Consider a different cultural scenario: does the rigid definition of gender roles in the Middle East mean that women will always have lower status than men? Can there be any type of equality for women when they have a separate sphere from men? Does veiling itself create inequality? Can the separation of women and men benefit women?

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Question 6

Which of the following types of societies are most associated with gender egalitarianism?

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A)  hunting and gathering 
B)  horticultural 
C)  pastoral 
D)  agrarian 
E)  industrial

Question 7

According to Deborah Tannen,which statement best describes the differences in language between men and women in the United States?

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A)  Men and women cannot converse productively. 
B)  Men engage in "rapport talk" while women engage in "report talk." 
C)  Men's talk tends to be more competitive. 
D)  When men and women are talking together, women tend to talk more than men and interrupt them more frequently. 
E)  Men tend to listen better than women do.

Question 8

Men in the United States have a higher mortality rate than at all ages.How do gender roles connect directly to men's quality and duration of life?

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Question 9

Iranian women's abandonment and subsequent return to the veil and more traditional female roles illustrates that:

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A)  the status of women in societies is not static. 
B)  political change seldom changes women's roles. 
C)  men are universally dominant. 
D)  purdah has no place in the modern world. 
E)  world politics has enormous effect on what women choose to do.

Question 10

No society fails to regulate sexual conduct in some way.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Two-thirds of all the illiterate people in the world today are women.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Ecuadorian women were reluctant to use family planning clinics because the staff did little to protect women's privacy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which country has the highest Gender Empowerment Measure (greatest equality between men and women)?

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A)  Niger 
B)  Canada 
C)  Norway 
D)  Sierra Leone 
E)  United States

Question 14

Female circumcision is classified as a form of gender exploitation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

How important are economic factors in the definition of gender in the United States? What factors have pushed women into or out of the work force? How important have family considerations been in women's entry into the paid labor force? Why is there a difference between women's and men's wages?

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Question 16

Which statement about sexuality in the United States is not true?

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A)  Although more people are becoming sexually active at a younger age, they are not having sex as frequently. 
B)  Young people are becoming sexually active at an earlier age. 
C)  A greater percentage of younger people are becoming sexually active. 
D)  For those who are sexually active, their sexual activity is becoming more frequent. 
E)  The United States tends to be more permissive about sexuality than many other countries.

Question 17

Susan Scrimshaw,an anthropologist studying family planning clinics in Ecuador,found that:

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A)  Ecuadorian women used these clinics very frequently and needed more clinics to address their needs. 
B)  women only respected male doctors. 
C)  the staff of local clinics had little to do with women's decisions about attending the clinic. 
D)  women's modesty had important implications for how women felt about attending family planning clinics. 
E)  women at the clinics had very positive attitudes about their bodies.

Question 18

Sexual asymmetry can be shown through the use of doublets:

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A)  which demonstrate the inequality of women compared to men in America. 
B)  which are pairs of words that have the same meaning, but one word is used by men and the other by women. 
C)  which are found in Standard American English. 
D)  which always vary in terms of loudness and aggressiveness. 
E)  which are words that are constructed of at least two other words and have a private meaning between men and women.

Question 19

Which statement about the Minangkabau of West Sumatra is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  The society is a true matriarchy. 
B)  This society tends to emphasize cooperation among men and women. 
C)  This society emphasizes women controlling men. 
D)  This society emphasizes high levels of competition between men and women. 
E)  This society has multiple genders and so there is no traditional understanding of differences between men and women.

Question 20

What is meant by the "feminization of poverty?"

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Exam 11: Sex and Gender

The milk-goat project in Malawi was an attempt to address which basic social problem?

What is gender stratification? If women are not allowed to hold important positions in religious activities,does that indicate stratification? Does the prohibition of women from the same economic activities as men always indicate stratification?

Approximately 15 percent of all children in Malawi suffer from malnourishment.

Men in the United States are better paid than women,even though the gap has been narrowing in recent decades.

Which of the following types of societies are most associated with gender egalitarianism?

According to Deborah Tannen,which statement best describes the differences in language between men and women in the United States?

Men in the United States have a higher mortality rate than at all ages.How do gender roles connect directly to men's quality and duration of life?

Iranian women's abandonment and subsequent return to the veil and more traditional female roles illustrates that:

No society fails to regulate sexual conduct in some way.

Two-thirds of all the illiterate people in the world today are women.

Ecuadorian women were reluctant to use family planning clinics because the staff did little to protect women's privacy.

Which country has the highest Gender Empowerment Measure (greatest equality between men and women) ?

Female circumcision is classified as a form of gender exploitation.

How important are economic factors in the definition of gender in the United States? What factors have pushed women into or out of the work force? How important have family considerations been in women's entry into the paid labor force? Why is there a difference between women's and men's wages?

Which statement about sexuality in the United States is not true?

Susan Scrimshaw,an anthropologist studying family planning clinics in Ecuador,found that:

Sexual asymmetry can be shown through the use of doublets:

Which statement about the Minangkabau of West Sumatra is true?

What is meant by the "feminization of poverty?"