Deck 13: A: Gender Stratification

Question 1

Gender roles are defined as attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Traditional conceptions paint masculine and feminine in opposing terms.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Gender affects the opportunities and constraints each of us encounters throughout our lives.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

None of the Famous Five was made a senator.

Question 5

Evidence from the Israeli kibbutzim suggests that cultures have the ability to define what is masculine and feminine in various ways.

Question 6

In Canada,on average,males live longer than females.

Question 7

In global perspective,the region in which women have the least social power is North America.

Question 8

George Murdock found that,in the case of most tasks,what one society considers "masculine" another may consider "feminine."

Question 9

Most sociological research suggests that gender is socially constructed and thus is subject to change.

Question 10

Since very few societies have existed without patriarchy,we must conclude that it is inevitable.

Question 11

In athletics,the performance gap between male and female athletes is increasing.

Question 12

On average,males are both taller and heavier than females.

Question 13

Research shows that young males have less mathematical ability but greater verbal ability than young females.

Question 14

Sexism is the assertion that one sex is innately superior to the other.

Question 15

Patriarchy provides advantages,but not disadvantages,to males.

Question 16

Margaret Mead argued that gender was mostly a matter of biology rather than culture.

Question 17

Like race or social class,gender is a major dimension of social stratification.

Question 18

Gender socialization begins in childhood and ends as we approach adulthood.

Question 19

In her famous study,Margaret Mead investigated gender in three African societies.

Question 20

Gender refers simply to whether people are female or male.

Question 21

Voiceovers on TV commercials are almost always male.

Question 22

In Canada,women gained the right to vote in 1820.

Question 23

Most nurses today are male.

Question 24

In Canada today,women working for income is the rule rather than the exception.

Question 25

Canada,working women are concentrated in administrative support jobs and in service jobs.

Question 26

In Canada,the first wave of the feminist movement began in the mid-1700s.

Question 27

A social-conflict account of the history of gender stratification was developed by Friedrich Engels.

Question 28

Liberal feminism seeks the elimination of gender itself.

Question 29

In Canada today,two-thirds of specialist physicians are women.

Question 30

Minority women are more economically disadvantaged than white women.

Question 31

Pornography dehumanizes women as the sexual playthings of men.

Question 32

Canadian women earned 71 cents for every one dollar earned by men.

Question 33

Canada,most engineers,judges,and college presidents are men.

Question 34

In Canada,a majority of bachelor's degrees are earned by men.

Question 35

Feminist thinking is strongly political.

Question 36

Today in Canada,a larger share of women than men is in the labour force.

Question 37

Most white women in Canada think of themselves as a minority.

Question 38

Talcott Parsons described gender in terms of power relationships.

Question 39

Intersection theory holds true in the United States,but not in Canada.

Question 40

While playing in peer groups,girls tend to avoid the "win-lose" games favored by boys.

Question 41

Feminism supports women's control over their sexuality and reproduction.

Question 42

Feminists argue that patriarchy distorts the relationships between men and women.

Question 43

The Equal Rights Amendment in the United States became law in 2005.