Gender Difference

Question 1

What does “gender” refer to?

Answer 1

Sex with the social/cultural characteristics associated with being male/female

Question 2

What are “gendered social practices”?

Answer 2

They shape womens and mens bodies in ways that reinforce paricular cultural images of ‘femininity/masculinity’

Question 3

Name 3 ways gender construction is reinforced?

Answer 3

• naming
• dress
• treatment/gendered partenting
• work roles

Question 4

Idea of men/women as unequal social categories operates by converting average differences into

Answer 4

absolute differences

Question 5

Gendering of physical activity…

Answer 5

..boys are more active than girls from 8-10yrs

• difference increases with age
• the gender difference holds true across social class

Question 6

The concept of transcendence is used to signify ways that biology can be

Answer 6

transformed by gendered social practices

Question 7

What is the morbitity/mortality pattern in females?

Answer 7

higher morbidity but lower mortality hence they are expected to live longer in poor health

Question 8

more “masculine” gender role orientation is associated with a higher

Answer 8

social value and related health benefits

Question 9

What does the concept of essence refer to.. the philosophical position that

Answer 9

objects have natural and unchanging properties which make them one kind of thing rather than any other.