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Exam 9: How Does Gender Affect the Type of Work We Do and the Rewards We Receive for Our Work

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Human capital theory argues that gender is an organizational characteristic that must be studied at the institutional level.

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Indira helps her husband to shear the sheep and regularly cleans the pen, but she receives no pay in return for her labor. Her husband receives all the money from shearing and selling the sheep. Indira is an example of what type of worker?

A) Contributing family worker
B) Own-account worker
C) Informal laborer
D) Family wage worker

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The fact that women earn about 77 cents per male dollar earned is known as_________.

The invisible pressure that men face to move upward in their professions is known as the:

The author of the text argues that the family wage is a way of sustaining a social order in which women are dependent on men.

Which theoretical approach argues that sex segregation is a fundamental part of how businesses work?

Their enactment of ______ allows higher class men to define themselves in contradiction to the behaviors of working-class men.

As a given job is restructured to reduce autonomy, decrease pay, and simplify the required skillset, it will typically see a(n) _______ in male employees and a(n) ______ in female employees.

Research has shown that experiencing sexual harassment at work could signficantly impact a person's lifetime earnings and career trajectory.

Because men have been thought of as primary or sole breadwinners, a woman's wage has often been considered ______.

Owing to large barriers to employment as a stable source of masculine identity, many young African American men participate in oppositional culture.

Female-to-male transgender people provide an "outsider-within" perspective to gender, since they experienced gender from both outside and within the identity and status of a man.

Anderson argues that for today's young African American men, ______ is no longer part of the definition of masculinity.

The text argues that women's employment rates are often tied to economic development. Why might this be?

What might explain the lower participation of women in the global workforce than of men?

What is the family wage? How did the family wage foster gender inequality?

Men are more likely to take part in ______ while women are more likely to take part in ______.

The advantages men in general gain from the subordination of women is known as ______.

Workers in the informal economy are generally considered less vulnerable than those employed in the formal economy.

Which theoretical explanation for sex segregation argues that once gender is internalized, it affects decisions at the individual level such as job choice?