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QUESTION 16

Which of the following jobs could be described as a "pink-collar" job in the United States?

         a.      nurse practitioner

         b.      human resources manager

         c.      professor

         d.      hotel maid

QUESTION 17

The model family in the 1950s in America was a happy, simple one. Mom stayed home and raised the kids, and Dad went to work and made a good living. Even the dog was happy. In this nuclear family model, we can clearly see the structure of

         a.      "doing gender."

         b.      sex role theory.

         c.      Marxist theory.

         d.      postmodern theory.

QUESTION 18

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique championed women's right to work in the early 1960s. But for many black feminists, Friedan's book ignored thousands of working women by suggesting that

         a.      all women experience oppression in the same way.

         b.      men benefit from relegating women to the domestic sphere.

         c.      gender influences daily life.

         d.      gender is constructed.

QUESTION 20

According to Michelle Rosaldo’s theory, regardless of time or culture, women tend to be associated with ________ and men tend to be associated with ________.

         a.      not having sense of humor; having a good sense of humor

         b.      the domestic sphere; the public sphere

         c.      children; adults

         d.      being owned; ownership

QUESTION 21

Which of the following statements offers an essentialist explanation for gender differences?

         a.      Women find themselves in lower-paying jobs with fewer opportunities for advancement because these jobs make it easier for them to balance work and family.

         b.      Women take on more responsibility for domestic tasks because men still think of these tasks as women's work.

         c.      There are far fewer women professors in the hard sciences because women are encouraged to study the humanities and social sciences.

         d.      Women are overrepresented in professions such as nursing, teaching, and social work because they are inherently more nurturing and caring than men.

QUESTION 22

In 2011, a Toronto police officer said, during a crime prevention talk, that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized." The idea that women are supposed to dress within a particular set of (largely unspoken) social boundaries, and thereby avoid being called "sluts," speaks to the

         a.      inability of the Toronto police officer to control himself.

         b.      sharp divisions between biological males and biological females.

         c.      maintenance of a gender order.

         d.      importance of language in society.

Answer 1

Question 16- Correct Answer- d- hotel maid. Service industry is denoted by pink collar. Therefore, hotel maid is in service industry.

Question 17- Correct Answer- b- Sex role theory. There are specific roles and responsibilities allocated to individuals based on their biological sex and they are also socialized in such a manner to perform the roles. It is called as sex-role theory.

Question 18- Correct Answer- c- gender influences everyday life. This seems to fit the bill as Friedan recieved many letters from housewives about how because of their gender they were impacted in their daily lives.

Question 20- Correct Answer- b- the domestic sphere, the public sphere. According to Rosaldo, because of inequality and women being confined to the domestic sphere they were subjected to subordination by males.

Question 21- Correct Answer- d. women are overrepresented in professions such as nursing, teaching, and social work because they are inherently more nurturing and caring than men. It is an essentialist explanation because the essential condition for nursing, teaching and social work is nurturance and care.

Question 22- Correct Answer- c- maintenance of a gender order. The reason is that there are certain rules which needs to be adhered to irrespective of gender.