Sex And Gender

Question 0

Gender is?

Answer 0

Expected behaviors that cultures assign to each sex

Question 1

Sex is?

Answer 1

Biological characteristics, male or female

Question 2

Gender role is

Answer 2

Infinite gender roles. It refers to the rights and obligations that are normal for men and women in a culture

Question 3

Doing gender refers to

Answer 3

Everyday activities that individuals engage in to affirm their commitment to gender roles

Question 4

Compulsive heterosexuality is

Answer 4

Continually demonstrating ones masculinity

Question 5

Glass ceiling

Answer 5

Invisible barrier to women’s promotions

Question 6

Sexual harassment

Answer 6

Unwelcome sexual advances. Expecting sexual favor for something or hostile climate

Question 7

Gender effected by culture

Answer 7

Women are inferior in pay. Men prefer math and science woman literature and language

Question 8

How is gender a predictor of health?

Answer 8

Women live longer because men tend to take more risks. Woman also get illness that are chronic while men get deadly ones

Question 9

Gender pay differences

Answer 9

Men make more then woman even in jobs where women are the majority

Question 10

Feminisms three waves:

Answer 10

1st wave: 1920s right to vote and education. 19th amendment.
2nd wave: liberal feminism, war protests, right to own body, and violence against women. 1960s
3rd wave: different effects of inequality among groups of woman. Modern times

Question 11

Sexual scripts:

Answer 11

Cultures expectation on the who, what, when, where, and with whom one has sex with

Question 12

Transgender

Answer 12

Individuals whose sexual identity is not definitively male or female

Question 13

Intersex is

Answer 13

People born with both genitalia

Question 14

Transsexuals are

Answer 14

Feel trapped in the body of the wrong sex