Question 1

What is one reason that divorced women might experience more happiness than divorced men after their marriage ends?

Accepted Answer

A)   Only divorced women are entitled to alimony and tax rebates.
B)   Divorced women spend less time on the second shift.
C)   Divorced women can now channel their energy toward being a Super Mom.
D)   Divorced women rely more on domestic outsourcing than divorced men do. B

Question 2

Couples with class privilege can build and maintain an equal division of labor by

Accepted Answer

A)   remaining childless.
B)   outsourcing more household labor.
C)   sharing the same traditionalist orientation.
D)   specializing in either household or market labor. B

Question 3

Some couples choose the breadwinner/housewife arrangement even when they have egalitarian beliefs, often because

Accepted Answer

A)   the alternative of being Super Mom is not practical for women of their social class or race
B)   the women have been socialized to accept a move full-time to the second shift and men were socialized to be breadwinners.
C)   there is a relatively large difference between what the average husband and wife earns.
D)   they know that maintaining care chains helps lower income families. C

Question 4

The working poor are people who

Accepted Answer

A)   are paid wages below minimum wage.
B)   work 40 hours a week at paid jobs but still live in poverty.
C)   are hired for domestic outsourcing by upper-class families.
D)   are working toward economic stability.

Question 5

Which of these is NOT a reason that family decisions lead to asymmetrical divisions of labor in couples?

Accepted Answer

A)   Economic rationality favors breadwinner men.
B)   Having women defer to men's preferences makes sense in a culture of gender subordination.
C)   When a child is born, women change their mind about what they want in the long term.
D)   Housework is feminized work.

Question 6

The study of how households with only men divided up their chores found that

Accepted Answer

A)   caring about cleanliness could be masculinized too.
B)   doing masculinity meant pretending not to care whether the house was clean.
C)   housework was not gendered unless women were present.
D)   policing cleanliness can be more important than policing gender.

Question 7

Which of the following is true about the second shift?

Accepted Answer

A)   Single mothers are especially likely to avoid facing this specific challenge of marriage .
B)   It is a gender-neutral problem facing all families, solved strategically in different ways.
C)   On average, it disproportionally burdens women.
D)   Generally, married couples divide housework between them on the basis of who has more time when the first shift of paid work is over.

Question 8

Name two different ideological barriers and two structures of material opportunity that limit households from carrying out their preferences for a more equal division of unpaid labor. Which of these four explanations would you select as most important for women and men who are like you in their other identities/social locations? Why?

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Question 9

How does the continued feminization of housework and childcare impact gender equality? Explain this phenomenon in your own words.

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Question 10

Which of the following statements, regarding people who specialize in unpaid household labor, is false?

Accepted Answer

A)   They often feel their partners do not value their contribution toward the household.
B)   They experience a loss of bargaining power and status in their relationship.
C)   They overwhelmingly had planned to be a housewife or househusband.
D)   They experience economic vulnerability.

Question 11

Compare and contrast the specific meaning of the ideology of intensive motherhood and the feminization of housework. Explain how each of these concepts relate to the broader principles of sexism, androcentrism, and subordination that make the gender binary a relationship of inequality. How does the strategy of domestic outsourcing relate to them?

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Question 12

In Gender, Wade and Ferree discuss various ways labor can be divided within families. Pick any three ways, name and define the three you pick, and then explain what factors outside the family make it more or less probable that particular families will choose these specific arrangements.

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Question 13

Domestic outsourcing refers to

Accepted Answer

A)   paying non-family members to do family-related jobs.
B)   men being responsible for the second shift in a relationship.
C)   grandparents being primary caregivers for grandchildren.
D)   upholding the ideology of intensive motherhood.

Question 14

The ideology of intensive motherhood is reflected in all of the following relationships EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)   mothers feel they should never allow anyone else to be an emotionally significant caretaker of their children.
B)   child rearing today involves extreme investments of time, energy, and material resources only from the mothers who can afford to stay home full time.
C)   maximizing children's educational and career achievement is a mother's primary goal.
D)   more personal investment in doing childcare than in housework, especially among upper and upper-middle class mothers who can afford some domestic outsourcing.

Question 15

Which statement best reflects how family life is represented in sitcoms, TV commercials, and parenting advice books in the United States today?

Accepted Answer

A)   Grandparents are in charge of children and the second shift.
B)   Parenting is a joint responsibility of a mother and father.
C)   Women are primary caretakers of the house and children, and dads are backups.
D)   Fathers are active and knowledgeable caretakers of children.

Question 16

Why could outsourcing be called a patriarchal bargain?

Accepted Answer

A)   It helps migrant communities earn a living doing domestic chores.
B)   It has to be negotiated to resist the matrix of domination.
C)   It does not liberate women as a group.
D)   It helps build transnational care chains that reproduce patriarchy.

Question 17

Why do so many wealthy white wives support the ideology of intensive mothering?

Accepted Answer

A)   They want to preserve their social standing by defining their work as valuable.
B)   They believe in biological differences emerging in early childhood.
C)   The commodification of baby products was enhanced by their position in capitalism.
D)   They want to contest the demands of greedy institutions like work and family.

Question 18

In Gender, Wade and Ferree label work and family as "greedy institutions" because

Accepted Answer

A)   both are expensive.
B)   both are designed in ways that enhance national GDP for the good of the country.
C)   both make gendered demands for a great deal of an individual's time and energy.
D)   both preserve the androcentric organization of economy.

Question 19

The term Othermothers refers to

Accepted Answer

A)   the style of outsourced child rearing found in wealthy communities.
B)   unmarried mothers accepting government aid to help support raising their children.
C)   women who contribute mothering time and care for children in their neighborhoods.
D)   outsourcing the wife-and-mother role in a transnational care chain.

Question 20

In low-income households, mothers will often stay at home because

Accepted Answer

A)   they wish to help nonfamily members in their neighborhood.
B)   they wish to please their in-laws by doing more intensive mothering.
C)   day care costs more money than they are able to earn by working.
D)   building egalitarian relationships requires mutual sacrifice.

Exam 11: Families