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Gender and Social Inequality
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1 .       The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution has not yet been approved. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       Modern research has documented some biological differences between men and women that can have some influence on behavior and abilities. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       According to the Functionalist perspective, women who devote themselves today to just child rearing or expressive tasks are wasting one of society's resources. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       The conflict perspective makes a study of way that men and women interact and communicate in various settings. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       Female teachers are more likely to encourage courage and assertion in girl students than in boy students. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       African-American men have a slight edge over African-American women when it comes to levels of education achievement. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       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. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Women who choose the military as a career are given the same opportunities as men to advance. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       Women make up fewer than 10% of all members of parliaments or congress in the world. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       There are social forces at work in the United States which could set the women's movement back in the future, rather than forward. [Hint]

 
 






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