Deck 7: Making a Home, Making a Living

Question 1

Gendered roles linked to the gendered division of labor reinforces:

A) specified societal behaviors
B) cultural heritage and traditions
C) ideas regarding morals and ethics
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The ideal of a committed partnership or marriage is apparently one shared by women, gender nonconforming people, and men who are looking for:

A) love
B) equality
C) acceptance
D) none of the above

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Advocates for LBGTQI liberation propose the support of all committed relationships such as:

A) partnerships
B) interdependency
C) relationships
D) none of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A productive economy is always already supported by unproductive house work such as:

A) cooking, cleaning, and doing the laundry
B) aiding the child/ren's curricular and extra-curricular activities
C) tending to family members' minor illnesses
D) all of the above

Question 5

Discussions on all who receive government support often omit:

A) tax breaks to corporations
B) funding for high-tech companies
C) government bailouts to banks
D) all of the above

Question 6

Miller provides evidence that during the 1990s to the present:

A) motherhood has become more demanding
B) parents do not spend more time and money on child care
C) women have not underestimated the costs of motherhood
D) fathers have not changed their attitudes

Question 7

Miller implicitly cautions about a study that states college-degree mothers and those pursuing a degree:

A) expected to maintain a career
B) struggled with stress-related work and studies
C) juggled the demands of a family
D) all of the above

Question 8

According to the same study from which Miller cites, fathers:

A) did not significantly change their pro- and post-baby's arrival beliefs
B) were less likely than women to say that parenthood was harder than they expected
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 9

Lomax-Reese in stating "the insanity of racism" is suggesting that racism stems from a place of:

A) psycho-social disorder
B) invented social normalcy
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 10

Lomax-Reese finds confounding how structural racism allows:

A) historic avoidance of US's racist past and present
B) the exoneration of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 11

Lomax-Reese underscores the creative genius and exploited labor of African Americans who:

A) created a music culture that has enriched Americans
B) provided centuries of free labor as a part of America's capitalist system
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 12

Burnham and Theodore call attention to domestic workers (including nannies and au pairs) who perform labor that:

A) is somewhat essential to the US economy
B) largely is undervalued
C) makes some work in society possible
D) is good for children

Question 13

As Burnham and Theodore point out, because domestic work is largely women's work, it continues an uninterrupted legacy of:

A) unpaid or underpaid women's labor
B) female slavery and exploitation
C) female domestic and workplace violence
D) all of the above

Question 14

Burnham and Theodore summarized findings inform on the domestic workers':

A) hazardous and arduous workplace conditions
B) not having the rights to a contract or laws that protect them from employers' abuses
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 15

Steiner's use of glass metaphors in journalism describes _____ that operate to advance or hinder women in journalism

A) doors
B) floors
C) escalators
D) all of the above

Question 16

Steiner references the "notion of critical mass" of women that can invariably _____ the workplace.

A) change positively
B) change negatively
C) make no difference to
D) none of the above

Question 17

Steiner presents the counter-argument of those who claim that no change results from women's top leadership in journalism because:

A) successful women and men have learned the same professional ideology and values
B) women become traitors to their gender
C) women do not know how to truly lean in for other women
D) women still cannot have it all

Question 18

Estrada and Hondagneu-Sotelo alert readers to the invisible _____ work of Latino/a immigrant families.

A) second-shift and third-shift
B) third-shift
C) hard
D) gendered

Question 19

Estrada and Hondagneu-Sotelo describe the conundrum facing many low-income families:

A) academic success in conflict with economic expediency
B) the desire to live well in conflict with having to work
C) the drive to succeed in competition with the trappings of success
D) none of the above

Question 20

Estrada and Hondagneu-Sotelo show the parallelism of Latino/a "third-shift" workers and _____ middle-class youth.

A) White
B) Black
C) Asian
D) Hispanic

Question 21

Miller writes, "As women do more paid work, men have not increased their child care and housekeeping tasks to the same extent…." Is this assessment of gender inequity in households valid? Provide concrete evidence to support your position.

Question 22

Lomax-Reese's use of Du Bois's "double consciousness" is a poignant reminder of the Black woman's triple consciousness of race, class, and gender (Patricia Hill Collins) that Black women wear like a mantle. Identify the various ways in which Lomax-Reese reveals the presence of her tripart mantle.

Question 23

Based upon Burnham and Theodore's recommendations, is the solution to the problems that domestic workers encounter a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights? Conduct some research to learn which states have already adopted their own Bill of Rights before offering your own response.

Question 24

Steiner concludes that the "circular and self-fulfilling problem" of sexism in journalism is often overlooked and "binary understandings of gender are problematic on several fronts." She calls for the focus to be on equity. Is she right? How so?

Question 25

A new perspective on the readings of this text is gendered hygienic appearances, which as Estrada and Hondagneu-Sotelo delineate, served to the advantage of Latina street vendors who also could use flirtatious tactics that appealed to male customers. Are biases against men-not only Latinos-and their hygienic standards justified? Tolerated? Part of the cycle of gender bias that already always undermines gender equity?