Chapter 4 Practice Quiz

1. What was the suffrage movement?

Second-wave feminism focusing on women's right to vote.

Third-wave feminism focusing on intersectionality.

First-wave feminism that focused on women's right to vote.

Fourth-wave feminism focusing on intersectionality.

Fifth-wave feminism focusing on the pay gap between men and women.

2. Which sociologist in the 1970s focused on the sociology of housework?

Ann Oakley

Herbert J. Gnas

David Harvey

John Locke

Talcott Parsons

3. Which best describes the sociological notion of a glass ceiling?

A physical ceiling that is made of glass

A metaphorical ceiling that bars women from advancing in the workforce

A metaphorical ceiling that bars ethnic minority men and women from advancing in the workforce

The lack of non-gender binary bathrooms in schools and places of work

The abundance of housework that women do relative to men

4. What is the feminization of poverty?

Being poor is depicted in more 'feminine ways'.

Women are overrepresented among the poor.

There are too many women's shelters and not enough for men.

There are more kids on the street than there are adults on the street.

Women are underrepresented among the poor.

5. What would structural functionalists, such as Talcott Parsons, say about gender division?

It is an ineffective way to carry out society's tasks.

A gendered division of labor is fine, so long as the women consent.

Gendered division is a morally impermissible problem that needs government intervention to fix.

Gendered division of labor is due to capitalists who only have their corporations' best interests at heart.

A gender division of labour was functional for families and for the wider society

6. What does the Marxist approach say about the gendered division of labour?

Society's sympathies should lay with the capitalist class because they are doing everything, they can, to remove gender divisions.

Less taxes will allow the free market to create jobs with less gender division.

Women should work at home while men should work in an office place.

Women and men working-class members are not exploited equally by capitalists: women are exploited more than are men.

Working class men and women are on the same side, both equally victims of the capitalist class.

7. How does the symbolic interactionist view gender inequality?

They are concerned with the overall function of society and see gender inequality as helping society function well.

They are concerned that capitalists are exploiting the labor of women over men.

They are concerned that capitalists are exploiting the labor of men over women.

They are concerned by the macro-notion of what gender means across a country.

They examine how gender-based inequalities are reproduced in our everyday interactions.

8. Which of the following statements is untrue regarding sexual harassment and sexual assault?

over half of Canadian women have experienced unwanted sexual pressure in the workplace

Women of colour experience higher overall rates of sexual harassment than their white women colleagues.

Sexual harassment can lead to increased job satisfaction.

More than half of women Reservists did not report an incident of sexual assault for fear of negative consequences.

All these statements are true.

9. What is 'quid pro quo' sexual harassment?

Any sexual harassment that takes place outside of the family home

Any sexual harassment that takes place inside of the family home

Any sexual harassment that takes place in the workplace specifically

An open demand for sexual favours in exchange for certain advantages

Subtle sexist remarks that create a hostile work-place environment

10. While women have higher life expectancy than men, women have higher:

rates of disease and disability.

higher rates of autoimmune disease

higher rates of unpaid labor

All the above

A and C only.

11. Sexism is any discrimination, insulting attitudes, and beliefs against people because of their gender.

True.

False

12. Sex refers to culturally learned notions of masculinity and femininity.

False.

True

13. 25% of women in Canada have experiences of unwanted sexual pressure at work.

False.

True

14. Research on the Quebec Family Policy shows that when childcare is subsidized, employment increases for women.

True.

False

15. Women between 30 and 45 are at the greatest risk for suffering from eating disorders.

False.

True

16. A majority of spousal violence is not reported to police.

True.

False

17. Policies are now in place that would give women the same occupational freedom that men enjoy.

False.

True

18. Social movements have the power to raise public consciousness and shift cultural norms regarding the gender wage gap.

True.

False

19. The patriarchy is the notion that women are at the head of society and make the majority of large social decisions.

False.

True

20. Gender roles are innate patterns of behavior that leads to popular notions of 'masculine' behavior and 'feminine' behavior.

False.

True

21. Women who cohabitate do the same amount of housework as married women.

False.

True

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