Gender MCQs
Gender MCQs
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1: Social scientists assert that gender differences are caused by all of the following except
A. Social control.
B. Biological differences.
C. Discrimination.
D. Prejudice.
2: How many women senators were there in the early 1990s?
A. Two
B. Ten
C. Twenty
D. Forty
3: Early feminist scholars treated gender as a (n) __________ , while contemporary feminist theorists define gender as a (n) __________ .
A. Privileged language; necessary prejudice
B. Necessary prejudice; privileged language
C. System of social practices; individual attribute
D. Individual attribute; system of social practices
4: According to the interactionist perspective, which question perpetuates gender inequality?
A. Are you expecting a boy or a girl?
B. What do you do for a living?
C. Which household duties do you perform at home?
D. Do you have access to birth control?
5: In 2012, for every dollar earned by a man, a woman made
A. 45.5 cents.
B. 76.5 cents
C. 80 cents
D. 95 cents.
6: How is intimate partner violence related to women's health?
A. Intimate partner violence primarily occurs in low income neighborhoods where women's health care is lacking.
B. Most women who experience intimate partner violence eventually acquire HIV.
C. Intimate partner violence typically results in psychological disorders for children who witness it.
D. Women who experience partner violence are more than twice as likely to experience depression than women who do not suffer partner violence.
7: Which state has the smallest wage gap?
A. New York
B. Wyoming
C. Louisiana
D. West Virginia
8: 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?
A. The Brawner test
B. The feminist requirement
C. The wage gap
D. The proportionality rule
9: Occupational segregation is a(n) __________ phenomenon.
A. Transient
B. Worldwide
C. Elusive
D. Historical
10: The United States is the only society where men and women perform identical functions, and are ranked and treated equally.
A. True
B. False
11: Colleges and universities receiving federal funding are required under Title IX to respond promptly and effectively to sexual violence against students.
A. True
B. False
12: The fundamental difference between males and females based on fixed physiological differences is referred to as gender.
A. True
B. False
13: The first woman senator was Nancy Pelosi, sworn into office on November 21, 1972.
A. True
B. False
14: Gender inequality is a persistent feature of all modern societies.
A. True
B. False
15: Title IX of the Education Amendments was passed during the second wave of feminism.
A. True
B. False
16: Humans typically learn about gender and how they should act based on their gender categories ______.
A. When they are born
B. As they become adults
C. Throughout many stages of their life
D. From about ages 5 to 10
17: According to research by Ortner, what typically happened to women represented in Grimm’s fairy tales who they took active roles in the stories?
A. They were rewarded with an attractive husband at the end of the story.
B. They were portrayed as wicked or as victims.
C. They were always heroes for defying the expectations of their gender.
D. They were quickly killed and replaced by a male hero.
18: According to anthropologists, the purpose of Spanish bullfighting is to ______.
A. Kill the bull
B. Have men compete and earn honor
C. Display as much violence as possible
D. Have men demonstrate their physical strength
19: Practices around wearing the hijab in Muslim-majority countries are ______.
A. Strict, and defiance is always met with severe punishment
B. Used in place of other forms of religious worship
C. Different in each country and are shaped by its politics and history
D. Extremely unpopular among the women in those countries
20: Which of the following cultures allows women to fulfill male gender roles without social costs to their femininity?
A. The Igbo of Nigeria
B. The Hindu of India
C. The Americans of the United States
D. The Nuer of Egypt
21: The practice of “boy insemination” by the Sambia of Papua New Guinea is intended to be a ______.
A. Display of dominance by adults
B. Rite of adulthood
C. Way of humiliating enemies
D. Act of love between two people
22: Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea, boys are initiated into male adulthood ______.
A. Through their first hunt with a village elder
B. Through a display of bravery and aggression
C. By participating in oral and anal sex with older men
D. By impregnating a woman for the first time
23: When does philosopher Michel Foucault claim that homosexuality was first created as a category of behavior?
A. 1870
B. 1901
C. 1967
D. 2015
24: Which culture has the highest amount of secrecy and repression around public discussion of sex?
A. Irish of Inis Beag
B. Mangaia of the Cook Islands
C. Na of China
D. Hijras of India
25: Patricia Hill Collins’ term the outsider-within refers to what type of woman?
A. Women in matrilineal societies who were denied their lineage rights.
B. Black women who worked for and had deep knowledge of white families.
C. Men in patriarchal societies who and were shamed for not meeting gender norms.
D. Both men and women who have similar gender roles in simple societies.
26: In ______ societies, the ownership of animals is a basis for the inferior status of women.
A. Foraging
B. Pastoral
C. Horticultural
D. Agricultural
27: In which type of society does the status of women typically correspond to their contributions to the cash economy?
A. Foraging societies
B. Pastoral societies
C. Horticultural societies
D. Agricultural societies
28: Which of the following accurately represents how globalization has been observed to change gender roles across the world?
A. Women have been shut out of the formal workplace.
B. Men have been rewarded financially for their control of raw resources.
C. Both men and women have been affected equally.
D. Household labor is now mostly paid work.
29: Anthropologists believe that ______ contributed to the significance of romantic love as a prerequisite for marriage and kinship in wealthy nations today.
A. Christianity
B. Economic mobility
C. High birth rates
D. Gardening
30: How many genders did the popular social media site Facebook allow users to select for self-identification when they expanded the field in 2014?
A. 2
B. 5
C. 15
D. 50
31: Although all of the following shifts in subsistence technology influenced gender inequality, which change had the most fundamental effect?
A. A shift to agrarian society
B. The domestication of animals
C. The emergence of private property
D. A shift to capitalism
32: Most of the gender dynamics we observe in everyday life are the outcomes of ______.
A. Biological factors
B. Group competition
C. Social arrangements
D. Dysfunctional parenting
33: Like the first wave, the ______ continued to push for greater reproductive rights and domestic equality.
A. Second wave
B. Final wave
C. Third wave
D. Fourth wave
34: Typically, medical professionals assign a person’s gender based on genitalia seen in ultrasounds or at birth.
A. True
B. False
35: Feminism is anti-men.
A. True
B. False
36: The ideology that men’s place is primarily in the field and the marketplace, while women’s activities should be concentrated within the domestic sphere is referred to as the ______.
A. Sphere of feminism
B. Doctrine of separate spheres
C. Sphere of capitalism
D. Doctrine of family spheres
37: Gender correspondence is enforced in U.S. society through ______.
A. Religious sanction
B. Biological sanctions
C. Legal sanctions
D. Structural sanctions
38: 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.
A. True
B. False
39: Genitalia, hormones, and chromosomes that are typically present at birth are components of ______.
A. Sex
B. Androgyny
C. Gender
D. Feminism
40: Women are positively sanctioned in patriarchal societies.
A. True
B. False
41: A person who has a gender identity different from their assigned sex is ______.
A. Genderqueer
B. Trigender
C. Transgender
D. Bigender
42: Feminism refers to all the movements that have sought to increase gender stratification.
A. True
B. False
43: The 19th Amendment ______.
A. Gives women the right to vote
B. Gives women the right to have jobs
C. Gives women the right to own firearms
D. Gives women the right to file for divorce
44: Most Americans are ______.
A. Cisgender
B. Gender fluid
C. Genderqueer
D. Gender nonconforming
45: Which feature of hunting-and-gathering societies promoted equal gender relations?
A. Extreme population growth
B. Traditionally large families
C. Hording of resources
D. Daily production of food
46: Refers to a combination of “masculine” and “feminine” traits is called
A. Cisgender
B. Androgynous
C. Feminism
D. All of above
47: People whose gender identity “matches” the biological sex they were assigned at birth is called
A. Cisgender
B. Androgynous
C. Feminism
D. All of above
48: The movement to change patriarchal values and ______ is called cultural feminism
A. Traits
B. Norms
C. Genes
D. Ethics
49: The idea that people act to create and assert their gender rather than an innate quality that people are born with is called doing gender
A. True
B. False
50: A situation in which negative consequences ensue regardless of the choice that is made is called
A. Single blind
B. Double blind
C. Triple blind
D. All of above
51: A variety of ideas, movements, and organizations that have sought to reduce gender stratification and achieve gender equality is called
A. Cisgender
B. Androgynous
C. Feminism
D. All of above
52: Socially constructed ideas associated with a person’s sex (e.g., what people in a society consider “masculine” or “feminine”) is called
A. Biasness
B. Gender
C. Malness
D. Feminism
53: Behaviors that indicate one’s gender status to others; see doing gender is called gender ______
A. Biasness
B. Display
C. Equality
D. Difference
54: People who identify as more than one gender and easily shift between them are called gender ______.
A. Biasness
B. Display
C. Fluid
D. Difference
55: One’s sense of being a girl/woman, boy/man, or some other gender is called
A. Gender Identity
B. Gender Status
C. Gender Socialization
D. Genderqueer
56: One’s position in the social structure based on gender (e.g., girl, boy) is called
A. Gender Identity
B. Gender Status
C. Gender Socialization
D. Genderqueer
57: The process by which people learn societal beliefs and norms related to gender and through which they develop a gender identity is called
A. Gender Identity
B. Gender Status
C. Gender Socialization
D. Genderqueer
58: An umbrella term including anyone whose sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression deviates from the gender binary is called
A. Gender Identity
B. Gender Status
C. Gender Socialization
D. Genderqueer
59: Glass ceiling is the discriminatory practices that limit opportunities for women and other minority groups to rise to higher levels in their careers, qualify for promotions, and earn higher salaries.
A. True
B. False
60: An occupational setting in which the _______ group (e.g., men) enjoy a distinct advantage called the glass escalator.
A. Recessive
B. Dominant
C. Specific
D. Special
61: The privileged, _______ expression of masculinity in a society is called hegemonic masculinity
A. Recessive
B. Dominant
C. Specific
D. Special
62: The tendency of elite men to select candidates for advancement who are most like themselves is called ________ reproduction
A. Heterosocial
B. Homosocial
C. Mixsocial
D. None of above
63: People with the biological characteristics of more than one sex is called
A. Samesex
B. Intersex
C. Mixsex
D. None of above
64: Like modern racism, an indirect, more subtle way of expressing prejudice against women.
A. True
B. False
65: Occupations that have been predominantly been held by women that are typically low in pay and prestige is called Pink Collar
A. True
B. False
66: Beliefs, values, and norms that encourage, condone, or minimize the rape of girls and women by boys and men is called Rape Culture
A. True
B. False
67: 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
A. Romance
B. Intimacy
C. Sex
D. All of above
68: Expectations for people’s behavior in romantic or sexual situations often related to gender norms is called sexual scripts
A. True
B. False
69: People who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex is called
A. Transgender
B. Androgynous
C. Feminism
D. All of above
70: Gender is a cultural construction that makes _____ differences between male and female into socially meaningful categories.
A. Biological
B. Physical
C. Genetic
D. Both a and b
71: Gender Hierarchy means the ways in which gendered activities and attributes are differentially valued and related to the distribution of_____ in a society.
A. Resources
B. Prestige
C. Power
D. All of these
72: Gender Ideology is the totality of ideas about _____ within a culture.
A. Sex
B. Gender
C. The natures of men and women
D. All of these
73: Behaviors that societies consider appropriate for people of different sexes refer to Gender Roles.
A. True
B. False
74: Hijra is an alternative gender role in india conceptualized as _____
A. Man
B. Woman
C. Either man or woman
D. Neither man nor woman
75: Intersectionality is the overlapping nature of _____ categories.
A. Cultural
B. Social
C. Political
D. All of these
76: 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 _____
A. Private Dichotomy
B. Public Dichotomy
C. Cultural Dichotomy
D. Both a and b
77: Sex is the biological difference between male and female.
A. True
B. False
78: Two-Spirit Role is an alternative gender role in native _____
A. East America
B. West America
C. North America
D. South America
79: The ways in which people gear their actions to specific circumstances so others will correctly recognize the actions for what they are is called
A. Allocation
B. Accountability
C. Androcentrism
D. None of Above
80: 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
A. Allocation
B. Accountability
C. Androcentrism
D. None of Above
81: The belief that masculinity and what men do are superior to femininity and what women do is called
A. Allocation
B. Accountability
C. Androcentrism
D. None of Above
82: Gender identity matches the sex category assigned at birth is called
A. Gender
B. Cis-gender
C. Male
D. Female
83: Consciousness-Raising describes A radical feminist social movement technique designed to help women make connections between the personal and the political in their lives
A. True
B. False
84: The process of placing someone in a gender category is called determining Gender
A. True
B. False
85: A ________ theory that claims gender is an accountable performance created and reinforced through individuals’ interactions
A. Doing Gender
B. Doing Sex
C. Doing Inequality
D. None of above
86: A sociological approach that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted assumptions that lie behind the basic stuff of social life and interaction is called ethnomethodology
A. True
B. False
87: Oriented toward interactions with other people is called
A. Justice
B. Expressive
C. Recessive
D. None of above
88: The social meanings and ideas we ascribe and layer onto the biological sex categories of male and female is called
A. Sex
B. Gender
C. Variations
D. Male
89: The way in which the meanings assigned to sex and gender as social categories create disparities in resources such as ______, power, and status is called gender inequality
A. Language
B. Income
C. Religion
D. All of above
90: 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. Gender Wage Gap
B. Male Wage Gap
C. Female Wage Gap
D. None of these
91: Oriented toward goals and tasks is called Instrumental
A. True
B. False
92: 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
A. True
B. False
93: Someone born with anatomical or genetic ambiguity about their biological sex is called ______
A. Mixsex
B. Intersex
C. Singlesex
D. None of above
94: 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
A. True
B. False
95: An attempted comprehensive and universal explanation of some phenomenon is called
A. Metanarrative
B. Patriarchy
C. Radical
D. All of above
96: Mothers who earn less than both men and women without ______ are called the Motherhood Penalty.
A. Mother
B. Father
C. Children
D. Inlaws
97: A society characterized by male dominance is called Patriarchy
A. Female
B. Male
C. Trans-genders
D. None of above
98: 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
A. True
B. False
99: Unpaid housework and childcare done primarily by women, in addition to paid work outside the home is called
A. First Shift
B. Second Shift
C. Third Shift
D. Fourth Shift
100: Biological traits that distinguish males from females, such as the internal and external reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, and hormones is called
A. Relation
B. Sex
C. Intimacy
D. Romance
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Cuestiones de género en lenguas españolas
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