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Public and Private Families: An Introduction, 3/e
Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University

Gender and Families

True/False Quiz

Please answer all questions



1

Berdaches could only marry other berdaches.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
2

A biosocial approach to human behavior asserts that both biology and social influences have important effects on gender differences.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
3

When controlling for education and work experience, data show that the gap in earnings between men and women disappears.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
4

An intersexual is a person born with ambiguous sexual organs.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
5

Chodorow's version of psychoanalytic theory stresses the process of mothering in the development of male and female gender identities.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
6

Chinese orphanages have an abundance of boys due to the cultural preference for daughters in that society.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
7

The sex-gender system is the transformation of limited biological sex differences into a social order that supports male domination.
A)True
B)False
8

The unpaid work of housewives is counted by the U.S. government as a component of the gross national product.
A)True
B)False
9

The earnings gap between men and women has been eliminated in the late 1990s.
A)True
B)False
10

Nock's attempt to bridge the gap between the feminist and the traditional branches of the men's movement focuses on the restructuring of marriage so that women and men benefit equally from it.
A)True
B)False