Exam 13: Gender Sensitive Social Work Practice

Domestic violence began to be recognized as a significant social problem in Japan in the early 1960s.

The principle of ______ is defined as equal pay for males and females doing work requiring comparable skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions.

_____ is the act and result of putting extreme limitations and constraints on some person, group, or larger system because the involved targets fit into some common category or have some common set of characteristics.

What gender-role stereotypes do you hold?  Do you think any of them will hinder your work as a social worker?  What do you do to eliminate the influence of these personal biases and values on your work as a generalist practitioner?

A feminist perspective on macro practice looks at the social policies and political structures that act to hamper women in leading free and productive lives.

The two primary emotions experienced during the acute phase after a rape are fear and:

Assertiveness involves being extremely straightforward about your own ideas and ignoring others' ideas.

_____ is prejudice or discrimination based on sex, especially discrimination against women that involves behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex.

Apgar and Callahan describe an aggressive person as the:

Wife-battering only occurs in lower-income families.

Feminism involves five components including:

Feminists emphasize the value of employee input.

Compared with nonvictimized women, women who have experienced rape are more likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

During interviews, counselors should encourage battered women to control their emotions so they can move on with their lives.

_____ is described as differential treatment of people based solely on their gender.

Feminism stresses freedom and the right to make life choices.

Identify four barriers to women in the workplace. Propose suggestions for remedying each.

List three services provided in some communities that benefit sexual assault survivors.

Families maintained by women comprise about 22 percent of all white families, compared to approximately ____ percent of all African American families.

All of the following nations were listed in the text as having made greater strides toward comparable worth than has the United States except :