Exam 2

Question 1

What concerns feminists about education?

Answer 1

Female underperformance in math and science

Question 2

What reasons cause girls in developing countries to leave school

Answer 2

To… Help at home, get married, and take care of younger siblings

Question 3

What is vertical gender segregation?

Answer 3

Women rarely make it to management

Question 4

What is the glass ceiling?

Answer 4

Invisible obstacles that women face when trying to advance their careers

Question 5

What is horizontal segregation?

Answer 5

• Mens jobs require strength/tech skills
• Women dominate caretaking jobs

Question 6

What is the Second Shift?

Answer 6

Women work both “productive” jobs and do housework
- The “Dual Burden”

Question 7

Productive vs Unproductive Work

Answer 7

Productive: Increases the value of an economy by creating goods and services
- Ex: working overnight at amazon
Unproductive: Does not produce goods and services in an economy, GDP doesn’t increase
- Ex: paying the bills, nursing babies, and cleaning the floors

Question 8

What is a “velvet ghetto”

Answer 8

High profile, low power jobs that rely on “natural” skills

Question 9

What is Sexual Harassment?

Answer 9

Sexual activity without informed consent
- Ex: a coworker tells you how “hot” you look even though you’re not interested

Question 10

What is gender intimidation?

Answer 10

Members of one sex are made to feel humiliated, unsafe, or inferior

Question 11

What are the common movie tropes that represent women?

(6)

Answer 11

• Damsel in distress
• Manic pixie dream girl
• The murdered woman
• The lady sidekick
• The straw feminist
• Lolita

Question 12

What is the male gaze?

Answer 12

In most media content, men act and women appear

Question 13

What is film noir?

Answer 13

A genre featuring the femme fatale (dark hair, assertive, gets what she deserves for not being passive)

Question 14

Why are cyborgs problematic?

Answer 14

They most often reinforce gender norms
- Its a utopia based on the idea that technology can improve the human body

Question 15

What are attitudes that perpetuate rape culture?

Answer 15

• “Boys will be boys” mindset
• Women are told how to avoid rape and are blamed for sexual assault
• “They probably didn’t mean to “

Question 16

What is period poverty?

Answer 16

The lack of access to menstrual products, hygiene facilities, education, and support

Question 17

What are the key components of consent

Answer 17

• Given without any form of pressure, coercion, and manipulation
• Anyone can change their mind at any time
• Can only be given if all parties understand what they’re agreeing to
• Must be given for one act or behavior ( does not apply to all situations)

Question 18

What is cyberfeminism?

Answer 18

The idea that technology might help society free itself from gender stereotypes
- Alexa and Siri have women’s voices by default

Question 19

What is the glass escalator?

Answer 19

Men in female dominated fields often experience a faster and smoother rise to the upper levels of leadership
- Higher salaries, more promotions, higher levels

Question 20

What is Cartesian dualism?

Answer 20

The idea that the human body and minds can exist independently
- Allows us to see the body as a machine

Question 21

What is coercion?

Answer 21

Persuading someone to do something by using force or threats

Question 22

What s the Bechdel test?

Answer 22

A measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction
- Are there at least 2 women who have names
- Do they talk to each other
- Do they talk to each other about something other than a man

Question 23

What are 3 factors that historically lead a community to engage in witch trials

Answer 23

• Strains on a society such as economic, political, religious
• Women easily scapegoated as a witch
• Money and/or property to gain

Question 24

Death rate for women working in prostitution?

Answer 24

40 times higher than the rest of the population