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Quiz #9 Gender

• Question 1

  10 out of 10 points

  	The gender wage gap in the U.S. can be found __________.
  	Answers: at all educational levels   only among college graduates   only among high school graduates   only among high school dropouts

• Question 2

  10 out of 10 points

  	The division of household labor is more likely to be equal among __________.
  	Answers: same-sex couples   teenage couples   married couples   poor couples

• Question 3

  10 out of 10 points

  	Which of the following is associated with successful female empowerment?
  	Answers: improved literacy of women   high maternal mortality rate   lack of rural health systems   sex trafficking

• Question 4

  	Feminism is defined as the philosophy that __________.
  	Answers: men should eventually become a minority group   women should become a more powerful force than men in society   gender equality should be strongly opposed   gender stratification should be strongly opposed

• Question 5

  10 out of 10 points

  	"Doing gender" is a phrase coined by __________.
  	Answers: C. Wright Mills and W.E.B. DuBois   Don Zimmerman and C. Wright Mills   Candace West and Don Zimmerman   Jane Addams and Candace West

• Question 6

  10 out of 10 points

  	The term "doing gender" suggests that __________.
  	Answers: it is natural to be ethnocentric towards the opposite sex   understanding other cultures creates a better society   people must learn the folkways and mores of a society regardless of their sex   gender is an activity we do, rather than a fixed identity

• Question 7

  10 out of 10 points

  	The idea that the knowledge we create is conditioned by where we stand is referred to as __________.
  	Answers: standpoint theory   black feminism   multicultural feminism   positional epistemology

• Question 8

  10 out of 10 points

  	Which of the following is a common belief of a radical feminist?
  	Answers: Gender inequality in the economy, religion, and other social institutions must be drastically transformed before women can hope to achieve true equality.   Women are best suited to family roles because of their biological abilities to bear children.   Women are socialized to have sympathy and emotion, so their ability to successfully lead is impaired.   Men should continue being the dominant sex because of their natural ability to lead.

• Question 9

  10 out of 10 points

  	Patriarchy refers to a(n) __________.
  	Answers: social system in which women dominate men   social system in which men dominate women   ideology in which women should never be allowed to work   ideology in which women should never be allowed to vote

• Question 10

  10 out of 10 points

  	Sex is characterized by __________, while gender is based on __________.
  	Answers: biology; genetics   physical traits; cultural characteristics   culture; biology   social expectations; genetics