Gender Studies Questions

- Because defining woman isn't always clear, research about sex and gender can be _________

_________ influences you whether you endorse it or not

women are more likely to show body language behaviors that show _____ status

women who self-label as feminists realize that ______, whereas those that reject the label think women have ________

People seem to be _____ likely to spontaneously use sexual slogan terms to describe women than menMen are ______ likely to use slang and women are more likely to be targeted with slang words

when is it especially hard to know how to address microaggressions?

Black women are _____ likely to be perceived in traditional gender-stereotypic ways across the life span.

what are women socialized to be instead of successful? and where does that come from supposedly?

Privilege is often _________ to those experiencing it, even among people who are socially conscious and trying to address inequality.

What is the ratio of women that serve a the council level compared to women that serve at the state or national levels of government?

The following is a list of roadblocks to building a gender-integrated bathroom for an academic department at New York University. Which one is directly related to a policy?the fact that the idea had to be approved by the city's Department of Buildingswomen's discomfort with the potential for male nudity and a fear of meeting strange men in close quarters during off-hoursthe need to spend extra time and money on a brand-new restroom designthe belief that men were messier than women

Gender-segregated bathrooms serve __________ function(s).socialnobiologicalsocial and biological

Sexual minority men are more likely to be identified as...asexual than heterosexual mentransgender than heterosexual mengender nonconforming than heterosexual mensensitive than heterosexual men

The ways in which gender relations are socially organized in a society is known as the...inertia of change.gender order.institutionalization of gender.matrix of domination.

The idea of a matrix of domination is intended to solve what problem for feminism?the difficulty theorizing a relationship between hostile and benevolent sexisma double bind in which women are "damned if they do and damned if they don't"how to account for the other injustices and inequalities men and women face in societythe need to capture how the nature of women's oppression varies across different contexts

In addition to having the highest infant mortality rate, within the United States, maternal morbidity during childbirth also occurs at the highest rate among...Indian womenIndigenous womenBlack womenHispanic womenno differences between women of different racial/ethnic backgroundsWhite women

The dominant structure of gender-segregated bathrooms in the United States can be especially challenging for people who...are heterosexual.conform to dominant gender norms.don't have to go to the bathroom.have a sexual minority identityare trans, gender-fluid, and/or ambiguous in their appearance

Which of the following statements best describes the strategy of emphatic sameness?Women use both masculinity and femininity strategically when either is useful and culturally expected.Some women perform exaggerated masculinity to demonstrate how similar men and women are.Men's negative stereotypes of women are strategically used to ensure women's subordination to men.Some women try to downplay the fact that they are female by making their femininity as invisible as possible.

If someone is a member of several disadvantaged or marginalized groups, then their experience of exclusion may be exacerbated.

disability is socially constructed