Exam 10: Gender Inequality

Human capital theorists reason that women choose occupations that are easy to move in and out of while still providing a decent income because women:

What agency has helped develop ties among women's movements in countries around the world?

As a result of differential treatment in schools,girls are socialized to be:

_______________ means that women and men are concentrated in different occupations.

The perspective that argues that men are responsible for and benefit from the exploitation of women and advocates abolition of the family and the power relations that characterize it is:

feminists criticize the maternal deprivation thesis,which asserts that children will be _______________ if not raised by their own mother or a female mother substitute.

The assumption shared by all schools of feminist thought is:

Rape is common in war because men are separated from their wives for long periods of time.

When women are steered into poorly paid jobs with few prospects for career advancement,_______________ occurs.

When do people begin to treat children in specific ways because of their gender?

The systematic domination of females by males is called:

Some sociologists argue that women are just as aggressive as men,but women display a different style of aggression that is consistent with gender norms.for women in the United States,this is called:

Compare and contrast gender roles in your country with those among (a)the !Kung or (b)the "bacha posh" in Afghanistan.

An organization with a promotion barrier that prevents a woman's upward mobility is said to have:

Despite the decreasing gender gap in pay,men still earn substantially more than women.

Although in the past 30 years the pay gap between men and women has _______________,on average _______________.

What have been the trends in women's participation in the labor force in the United States since the early 1900s? How do you account for these trends? Have they resulted in economic equality between men and women? Explain.

Over the past 50 years,women's participation in the paid labor force:

Since the 1950s,women's participation in the labor force has risen more or less continuously,and now women:

Which of the following is an accurate assessment of rape?