QuestionAnswerWhich of the following is the best example of a gender stereotype?Women tend to be overly emotional, while men tend to be levelheaded.Women are typically shorter than men.Men do not live as long as women.Men hold more high-earning, leadership jobs than women.Which of the following is the best example of the role peers play as an agent of socialization for school-aged children?Peers tend to reinforce gender roles by criticizing and marginalizing those who behave outside of their assigned roles.Children can act however they wish around their peers because children are unaware of gender roles.Peers serve as a support system for children who wish to act outside of their assigned gender roles.None of theseTo which theoretical perspective does the following statement most likely apply: Women continue to assume the responsibility in the household along with a paid occupation because it keeps the household running smoothly, i.e., at a state of balance?FunctionalismConflict theoryFeminist theorySymbolic interactionismOnly women are affected by gender stratification.FalseTrueAccording to the symbolic interactionist perspective, we “do gender”:all of the time, in everything we doduring half of our activitiesonly when they apply to our biological sexonly if we are actively following gender rolesMisogyny is:the hatred of or, aversion to, or prejudice against womenA certain kind if spa treatmentOne’s biological sexHow we know our gender rolesWhich of the following factors can affect the pay gap?all of thesehaving childrenlower education levelbeing marriedThe idea that gender inequality comes from the division of labor fits with which Sociological theory?FunctionalismSymbolic InteractionismConflict TheoryFeminist TheoryPrior to the 19th Amendment being ratified, women were not considered a legal person on their own.TrueFalseIn the 115th Congress of the United States, what percentage of the elected officials were women?21.2%10.5%30.4%50%Your questions are stored by us to improve Elon.ioPractice this lessonThe content of this course has been taken from the free Sociology textbook by Openstax
