Deck 6: Gender Minorities, Gendered Exclusions

Question 1

According to the text, what percentage of the world's refugees are women and children?

A) 20%
B) 40%
C) 60%
D) 80%

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What term describes the murder of wives and young women who dare to define the family honour through refusal to conform to conventional notions of femininity as defined by that particular culture?

A) Honour killings
B) Misogyny
C) Intersectional murder
D) Patriarchy

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What term describes a male hatred of women?

A) Androgyny
B) Misogyny
C) Androcentrism
D) Patriarchy

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to the text, who are the 'hushed over' victims of violence in Canada?

A) young black males
B) immigrant women
C) immigrant men
D) elderly immigrant males

Question 5

What do we call the inclination to interpret reality from a male point of view as natural, normal, and superior, while other perspectives are dismissed as irrelevant or inferior?

A) Androgyny
B) Androcentrism
C) Misogyny
D) Patriarchy

Question 6

What legal standing describes the status of foreign domestic workers during their first three years of employment in Canada?

A) refugees
B) immigrants
C) temporary workers
D) permanent residents

Question 7

What term describes those beliefs and practices that assert the superiority of one gender over another?

A) Misogyny
B) Androcentrism
C) Androgyny
D) Sexism

Question 8

According to an Amnesty International Report, 'Stolen Sisters', about how many Aboriginal women in Canada are thought to have vanished or have been murdered over the past thirty years?

A) 58 000
B) 5 800
C) 600
D) 1 600

Question 9

An intersectional analysis draws attention to factors in explaining violence against minority women.

A) Personal
B) Structural
C) Historical
D) Multicultural

Question 10

The killing of 6 year old Aqsa Parvez by the accused (her father and brother) was attributed to many causes. Which of the following was NOT normally included in the causal factors?

A) Refugee clash
B) Cultural clash
C) Intergenerational clash
D) Religious clash

Question 11

What term describes a society that is designed by and organized around male interests?

A) Misogyny
B) Androcentric
C) Sexist
D) Patriarchy

Question 12

According to the text, violence and abuse toward minority women is ultimately about

A) power
B) physical force
C) poverty
D) gender

Question 13

Three dimensions are thought to describe a gendered society? Which of the following is NOT regarded as a component or dimension of a gendered society?

A) A distinction is made between men and women
B) Male-female differences are thought to be largely irrelevant
C) A division of labour exists between women and men
D) Male activities are more highly valued than female activities

Question 14

Aboriginal women tend to confront the same kinds of problems as minority women in general. But Aboriginal women confront additional problems because they must cope with the legacy of ?

A) Ethnocentrism
B) Patriarchy
C) Racism
D) Colonialism

Question 15

According to the Canadian Labour Congress, in 2005, women in full time full year employment earned about percent of what men earned on average.

A) 70 %
B) 80 %
C) 90 %
D) 60 %

Question 16

What do we call the notion that race, ethnic, and Aboriginal relations are not gender neutral relations, but deeply and fundamentally structured in a way that uniquely disadvantages minority women?

A) gendered inequality
B) gender diversity
C) intersectional analysis
D) gender inequity

Question 17

According to the text, gender relations are ultimately relations of .

A) Sex
B) Inequality
C) Race and ethnicity
D) Women to men

Question 18

What Bill reinstated the status of Aboriginal women and children who had lost their "Indian" status for different reasons?

A) Indian Act
B) The White Paper
C) Bill C -31
D) The Constitution Act

Question 19

In what year did Canada establish its first foreign domestic worker program?

A) 1955
B) 1967
C) 1971
D) 1982

Question 20

What category of persons is defined by the UN as someone who lives outside their home country and is unable to return because they have a well-founded fear of persecution due to race or ethnicity or nationality?

A) Minority women and men
B) Refugees
C) Immigrants
D) Persecuted minority

Question 21

The inclination to interpret reality from a male point of view as natural and normal while dismissing other interpretations as inferior or irrelevant is known as .

Question 22

All societies make a distinction between males and females, impose a sexual division of labour, and generally value men's activities over women's activities. This leads to what is known as a society.

Question 23

Bill C-31 allowed Aboriginal women who had married a non aboriginal person to reclaim their status.

Question 24

What term describes the custom whereby male members of a family will kill or maim members of their family if the women have allegedly dishonored the family's name? Killings

Question 25

According to the chapter on Gender Diversity/Gendered Inequality, the term "minority women" includes several categories of women who differ because of their experiences in Canada. Which of the following is NOT included in this list of minority women?

A) Ethnic women
B) Aboriginal women
C) Racialized women of colour
D) Immigrant and refugee women

Question 26

According to the UN, sex trade workers are among the most widely abused and exploited of migrant workers. What other category of worker shares this dubious distinction?

Question 27

A hatred of women is known as .

Question 28

For minority women, is superimposed on race, class, and ethnicity to create interlocking and mutually reinforcing patterns of inequality.

Question 29

What do foreign and Canadian born racialized women in full time, full year employment earn on average compared to foreign and Canadian born racialized men?

A) 30 %
B) 50 %
C) 70 %
D) 85 %

Question 30

What term describes a system characterized by an institutionally-backed privileging of males over females across the entirety of society?

Question 31

An analysis describes the notion that gender intersects with race and class to amplify the exploitation or exclusion of women in society.

Question 32

To the nearest one hundredth, how many Aboriginal women in Canada have been murdered or have gone missing in the last 30 years.

Question 33

According to the text, violence and abuse toward minority women is ultimately about

Question 34

Both minority women and men may be discriminated against because of skin colour, but only minority women may experience additional discrimination because of their .

Question 35

The case study on minority women and violence has argued that domestic violence is more prevalent in immigrant communities than in mainstream communities. (True or false)

Question 36

What do we call the process by which race and class intersect with gender and ethnicity to create overlapping patterns of exclusion, domination and control?

A) Gender inequality
B) Interactionism
C) Symbolic Interactionism
D) Intersectional theory

Question 37

According to the text, which group of minority women ranks among the most severely disadvantaged in Canada because of their experience with the legacy of colonial oppression?

Question 38

Patriarchy is composed of three interrelated components, namely, sexism, misogyny, and .