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A scientific company lays off employees by seniority,retaining those that have been employed the longest.The majority of the female employees had been hired only in the past 10 years and were educated as part of the push to get more females into math and sciences.This situation is an example of

A) instrumentality.
B) expressiveness.
C) institutional discrimination.
D) pluralism.

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Children's books published since the 1970s have shown significant improvement in the representation of females,nearly as many as male characters shown in central roles.

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A woman doing which of the following would be a violation of the female gender role?

Which of the following statements about the feminist movement is true?

Most people do not display strictly "masculine" or "feminine" qualities all the time.

A woman's workday is a lot shorter than a man's.

Which sociologist coined the term matrix of domination?

Which of the following illustrates Arlie Hochschild's concept of the "second shift"?

The federal government does not consider sexual harassment a form of discrimination that violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Choose two different occupations and write a detailed support for why you wouldn't want either a man or woman performing the related tasks.Remember to be honest with both yourself and your audience.When finished,trade your piece with a classmate and start a dialogue about why you both chose the occupations you did and whether the conversation might get you to reconsider your original statement.

Compare and contrast the sociological perspective views on gender.

Stay-at-home fathers are still considered an unusual phenomenon.

According to Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales,the expressive role is performed by

Women are often more advantaged when working in male occupations because of the existence of the glass ceiling.

Which term refers to the convergence of social forces that contributes to the subordinate status of poor non-White women?

Discuss sexual harassment and stratification via the sociological perspectives.

An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender,race,or ethnicity is called

Which of the following sociological perspectives finds that women feel empowered by the experience of combat?

Using an analogy to Marx's analysis of class conflict,conflict theorists would argue that women are in a position comparable to that of the

Which of the following terms is used by Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales to refer to an emphasis on tasks,a focus on more distant goals,and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions?