Age Gender Flashcards

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Gender roles

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What’s the society expects of males and females

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Gender

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You are female or male used to describe the cultural, physical and social traits

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Matrilineal society

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Groups the base status and Heritance on the females kinship or descent

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Stereotypes

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Conventional, oversimplified often exaggerated images

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Sexism

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Believe that one sex is by nature, superior

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Feminism

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Believe in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes

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Birthrate

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Relationship of live births in a year to the total population

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Life expectancy

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Average number of years a person is expected to live under the current conditions

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American life expectancy rate

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70

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Death rate

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Relationship of number of deaths in a year to the

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The three age groups

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Training years, productive years, retirement years

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Baby boom generation

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Large number of Americans born between 1946 in 1964

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Ageism

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Prejudice or discrimination against people because of their age or older this

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Two inequalities as a result of ageism

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Healthcare and unemployment

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