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Gender and Social Inequality
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The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution has not yet been approved.
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Modern research has documented some biological differences between men and women that can have some influence on behavior and abilities.
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According to the Functionalist perspective, women who devote themselves today to just child rearing or expressive tasks are wasting one of society's resources.
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The conflict perspective makes a study of way that men and women interact and communicate in various settings.
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Female teachers are more likely to encourage courage and assertion in girl students than in boy students.
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African-American men have a slight edge over African-American women when it comes to levels of education achievement.
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Women who do better in high school and college than men and have a more positive attitude toward the workplace have been shown to have better, higher-paying careers at their employment midpoint.
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Women who choose the military as a career are given the same opportunities as men to advance.
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Women make up fewer than 10% of all members of parliaments or congress in the world.
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There are social forces at work in the United States which could set the women's movement back in the future, rather than forward.
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