Chapter 10

Which of the following statements about gender and schooling is correct?

T of F: In the United States today two-thirds of physicians are women.

Women earn what share of all associate's and bachelor's degrees in the United States?

T of F: Today in the United States only about 10 percent of women with young children work for income.

T of F: Traditional conceptions paint masculine and feminine in opposing terms.

T of F: In the teaching profession the share of teachers who are women increases as the grade level taught increases.

Sexual harassment is an important social issue because

On average young men show greater ____ ability than young women; young women show greater _____ ability than young men.

T of F: In her famous study Margaret Mead investigated gender in three African societies.

Looking back over U.S. history we see a general trend by which women

Which of the following statements about gender and schooling is correct?

What is at the heart of the controversy over women's participation in the military?

T of F: George Murdock found that in the case of many tasks what one society considers "masculine" another may consider "feminine."

Structural-functional analysis points out that industrialization encourages

T of F: In the United States most police officers engineers judges and college presidents are men.

What is a reason to see women as a minority in the United States?

Comparing the performances of female and male athletes over time shows

T of F: Since very few societies have existed without patriarchy we must conclude that it is inevitable.

T of F: In the United States today two-thirds of physicians are women.

T of F: A social-conflict account of the history of gender stratification was developed by Friedrich Engels.

T or F: In the United States today two-thirds of physicians are women.

Drawing on Janet Lever's observations of children at play which of the following would you conclude to be true?

In 2011 Forbes magazine reported that approximately ___________ of our country's richest people were women.

Margaret Mead's research on gender in three societies in New Guinea illustrates that

T or F: Minority women are more economically disadvantaged than white women.

Which type of feminism links the social disadvantages of women to the capitalist economic system?

Comparing the performances of female and male athletes over time shows

T or F: In the United States today women working for income is the rule rather than the exception.

Women have served in the U.S. armed forces

In his global study of how societies view gender George Murdock found