Gender - Cultural Studies & Ethics
Practice questions to test your knowledge and improve your understanding.
Title IX of the Education Amendments was passed during the second wave of feminism.
A version of feminist thought that employs Marxist paradigms to view women as an oppressed social class is called Socialist Feminism
The United States is the only society where men and women perform identical functions, and are ranked and treated equally.
Anthropologists believe that ______ contributed to the significance of romantic love as a prerequisite for marriage and kinship in wealthy nations today.
Humans typically learn about gender and how they should act based on their gender categories ______.
An umbrella term including anyone whose sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression deviates from the gender binary is called
When does philosopher Michel Foucault claim that homosexuality was first created as a category of behavior?
Sexual Dimorphism describes The belief that there are two discrete types of people—male and female—who can be distinguished on the basis of real, objective, biological criteria
Biological traits that distinguish males from females, such as the internal and external reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, and hormones is called
Which state has the smallest wage gap?
Genitalia, hormones, and chromosomes that are typically present at birth are components of ______.
The set of expectations attached to a particular sex category—male or female is called
A variety of ideas, movements, and organizations that have sought to reduce gender stratification and achieve gender equality is called
One’s sense of being a girl/woman, boy/man, or some other gender is called
People whose gender identity “matches” the biological sex they were assigned at birth is called
A person who has a gender identity different from their assigned sex is ______.
Typically, medical professionals assign a person’s gender based on genitalia seen in ultrasounds or at birth.
Gender correspondence is enforced in U.S. society through ______.
Despite the many achievements of the first, second, and third waves of feminism, many areas of gender inequality in social life remain, both in the United States and globally.
Consciousness-Raising describes A radical feminist social movement technique designed to help women make connections between the personal and the political in their lives
Physical or biological characteristics such as genitalia, hormones, and chromosomes that are used to classify people as female, male, or intersex; see gender is called
Oriented toward interactions with other people is called
The privileged, _______ expression of masculinity in a society is called hegemonic masculinity
An occupational setting in which the _______ group (e.g., men) enjoy a distinct advantage called the glass escalator.
Behaviors that societies consider appropriate for people of different sexes refer to Gender Roles.
Gender Ideology is the totality of ideas about _____ within a culture.
A gender system in which women’s status is lowered by their almost exclusive cultural identification with the home and children, whereas men are identified with public, prestigious, economic, and political roles is known as _____
How is intimate partner violence related to women's health?
Gender Hierarchy means the ways in which gendered activities and attributes are differentially valued and related to the distribution of_____ in a society.
Most of the gender dynamics we observe in everyday life are the outcomes of ______.
According to anthropologists, the purpose of Spanish bullfighting is to ______.
A situation in which negative consequences ensue regardless of the choice that is made is called
Like modern racism, an indirect, more subtle way of expressing prejudice against women.
Which culture has the highest amount of secrecy and repression around public discussion of sex?
A type of feminism that suggests men and women are essentially the same, and gender inequality can be eliminated through the reduction of legal barriers to women’s full participation in society is called liberal feminism
Which component of Title IX requires that schools demonstrate that the percentage of men and women athletes is about the same as the percentage of men and women students?
Someone born with anatomical or genetic ambiguity about their biological sex is called ______
Gender identity matches the sex category assigned at birth is called
The practice of “boy insemination” by the Sambia of Papua New Guinea is intended to be a ______.
How many genders did the popular social media site Facebook allow users to select for self-identification when they expanded the field in 2014?
Patricia Hill Collins’ term the outsider-within refers to what type of woman?
A society characterized by male dominance is called Patriarchy
A version of feminist thought that suggests gender is a fundamental aspect of the way society functions and serves as an integral tool for distributing power and resources among people and groups is called Radical Feminism
The way decisions get made about who does what, who gets what and who does not, who gets to make plans, and who gets to give orders or take them is called
The gap in earnings between women and men, usually expressed as a percentage or proportion of what women are paid relative to their male equivalents is called
A Intersectional approach that examines how social structures like public policies and laws make intersecting identities the vehicle for vulnerability and exclusion; for instance, being both a woman and a member of a racially subordinated group makes one vulnerable to combined forces of racism and sexism
Occupational segregation is a(n) __________ phenomenon.
Feminism is anti-men.
Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea, boys are initiated into male adulthood ______.
Colleges and universities receiving federal funding are required under Title IX to respond promptly and effectively to sexual violence against students.