Throughout The Life Course Gender Shapes
Question: The concept of gender refers to:
Answer: The personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male.
Question: Margaret Mead's research on gender in three societies in New Guinea illustrates that:
Answer: what is feminine to one society may be masculine to another.
Question: What is the form of social organization in which females dominate males?
Answer: matriarchy.
Question: Throughout the life course, gender shapes:
Answer: human feelings.human thoughts.human actions.
Question: What share of today's U.S. women are working for income?
Answer: 60 percent
Question: "Pink-collar" work refers to what type of jobs?
Answer: clerical
Question: In the United States in 2004, women in the labor force working full time earned (_____) as much as men working full time.
Answer: 87 percent
Question: On average, women earn less than men in which of the following categories of jobs?
Answer: executive, administrators, and managerssalesmachine operators
Question: In which of the following nations does the greatest political power of women come closest to that of men?
Answer: Norway.
Question: In what percentage of rapes and attempted rapes does the woman know her attacker?
Answer: 90 percent
Question: Sexual harassment became an issue in the United States in:
Answer: the 1990s.
Question: Most cases of female genital mutilation occur in which of the following places?
Answer: Africa
Question: If your goal were to build a coalition of liberals and conservatives, which of the following issues would be most likely to lead to success?
Answer: Pornography
Question: Talcott Parsons described gender in the terms of:
Answer: Complementarity
Question: Friedrich Engels claimed that capitalism:
Answer: Increased men's domination of women.