Chapter 7: Inequalities of Gender
True or False



1.  

Gender is a social construction.

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2.  

Gender socialization of children begins at school.

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FALSE


3.  

Advertisements directed at a general audience usually contain more powerful gender-stereotyping than ads directed at female audiences.

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FALSE


4.  

Men and women are more equal in agrarian societies than in hunting and gathering societies.

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FALSE


5.  

The structure of gender roles is the same in all cultures.

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FALSE


6.  

The ratio of female to male secondary school enrollment is equal in only a few countries throughout the world.

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FALSE


7.  

In the U.S., about twice as many women work full-time today as compared with 1950.

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FALSE


8.  

Over half of all working women have clerical or service jobs.

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FALSE


9.  

Pan-feminism is the view that sexism is related to all forms of oppression, and that feminist ideology therefore must fight against race and class oppression.

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FALSE


10.  

One of the contributing factors in gender inequality in the workplace is that overall, women have fewer qualifications than men.

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FALSE


11.  

Functionalism states that it is inefficient to divide labor on the basis of gender.

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FALSE


12.  

The aging of the baby boomers will be a major influence on the future of gender roles.

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FALSE


13.  

Symbolic Interactionism focuses on gender role socialization to explain gender inequality.

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FALSE


14.  

According to the Functionalist perspective, many women suffer from false consciousness because they support an ideology that works against them.

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FALSE


15.  

Women in corporations are often excluded from the glass ceiling because they don't network informally on the golf course.

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FALSE


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