Deck 12: Gender Communication and the Law

Question 1

Women attorneys face gender bias

A) Sometimes come across as too soft
B) Sometimes come across as too strident
C) Sometimes come across as too aggressive
D) All of these

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Cultural bias appears to be alive and well in the legal field.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Women were not allowed to vote in federal elections until

A) 1890
B) 1900
C) 1910
D) 1920

Answer 3

1920

Question 4

One hundred years ago a woman was considered inferior to a man.

Question 5

When a male construction worker whistles at an unfamiliar woman passing by, it is

A) not sexual harassment
B) clearly sexual harassment
C) Sometimes sexual harassment
D) None of these

Question 6

In the 1999 Supreme Court ruling Davis v Monroe Country Board of Education_____________ harassment was recognized

A) Teacher to student
B) Administrator to student
C) Student to Student
D) None of the above.

Question 7

The phrase "rule of thumb" related to

A) An educated guess
B) The measurement of the thickness of the instrument with which a man was permitted to beat his wife
C) Rules regarding glove size
D) None of these

Question 8

Rape laws were originally written to

A) Protect women
B) Protect sexual property right of husbands
C) Protect children
D) None of these

Question 9

In what country or countries is female genital mutilation practiced?

A) Africa
B) India
C) Malaysia
D) The Middle East
E) All of the above

Question 10

In cases regarding rape, women jurors are more apt to give harsher sentences.

Question 11

Historically, a married woman could not own property independently of her husband.

Question 12

People who possess less power are more likely than others to be harassed.

Question 13

A single crude remark is enough to be considered sexual harassment.

Question 14

_____ percent of Americans think that victims of workplace sexual misconduct receive too little protection.
A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 60

Question 15

#MeToo is changing the way people perceive sexual harassment at work.