Question 1

Women have which minority-group characteristics?

Accepted Answer

A)  Achieved status 
B)  Easily identifiable 
C)  They do not see themselves as a group 
D)  Periods where they hold the majority of the political power

Question 2

Most female technical and professional workers work as __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  speech-language pathologists 
B)  registered nurses 
C)  librarians 
D)  social workers

Question 3

If educational levels are equal, it is true that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  black women earn about the same as white women while working longer hours 
B)  white women earn more than black women 
C)  white women work longer hours than black women 
D)  black women earn more than white women while working fewer hours

Question 4

Gunnar Myrdhal noted the common experiences in early America of women and __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  immigrants 
B)  children 
C)  Native Americans 
D)  blacks

Question 5

The __________ is a real, but unseen, discriminatory policy that limits female upward mobility into top management positions.

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Question 6

Freudian psychologists suggested that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  gender differences affected behavior 
B)  biological differences had no effect on behavior 
C)  all sex role behavior was learned 
D)  females were actually more aggressive than males

Question 7

Television __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  helps overcome sex stereotyping 
B)  significantly improved its realistic portrayal of women 
C)  continues to promote traditional sex stereotypes 
D)  has no pattern of promoting sex stereotyping

Question 8

Minority women encounter prejudice and discrimination on what two fronts?

Accepted Answer

A)  Age and gender 
B)  Beliefs and attitudes 
C)  Race and gender 
D)  Social class and gender

Question 9

In fields of study in college today, we find__________.

Accepted Answer

A)  proportional representation of males and females in most areas 
B)  females outnumbering males in the sciences 
C)  males significantly outnumbering females in engineering and physical sciences 
D)  females outnumbering males in computer and informational sciences

Question 10

In what areas are women denied equal rights? How has this changed over time?

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Question 11

Discuss the role of socialization in developing sex role behavior. Provide specific examples.

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Question 12

As male dominance continued over the generations, a sexist ideology evolved to justify the existing order as __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  illegitimate 
B)  natural 
C)  unstable 
D)  structural

Question 13

Interactionists emphasize __________ as a way of understanding how gender inequality structures our world.

Accepted Answer

A)  male advantages in maintaining sexual inequality 
B)  biological gender roles 
C)  class differences 
D)  internalized societal expectations

Question 14

Sociologists Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales maintained that the efficient functioning of a society, indeed its very survival, depends on satisfying both __________ and __________ needs.

Accepted Answer

A)  functional; institutional 
B)  expressive; instrumental 
C)  instrumental; expressive 
D)  institutional; functional

Question 15

Who suggested that male genitalia influenced boys to be questing, aggressive, and outward-thrusting and that female genitalia directed girls to be concerned with boundaries, limits and interiors?

Accepted Answer

A)  Friedan 
B)  Hacker 
C)  Erikson 
D)  Myrdal

Question 16

Women on the __________ try to juggle both family and work, which often slows or halts their upward mobility within the company.

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Question 17

In __________, women are most equal with men in terms of degrees conferred.

Accepted Answer

A)  medicine 
B)  dentistry 
C)  law 
D)  theology

Question 18

When did sex inequality become marked by disparities in economic contributions?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hunting-and-gathering societies 
B)  Industrial societies 
C)  Postindustrial societies 
D)  Globalized societies

Question 19

__________ is one's socially defined, unchangeable position in a society based on such arbitrary factors as age, sex, race, or family background.

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Question 20

Explain how World War II changed women's labor force participation.

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Exam 13: Women As a Minority Group