American Social Problems

Ch 10: Women and Men

Chapter Overview

I. ObjectivesII. Introductory QuizIII. What about next week’s lesson?

I. ObjectivesA. Identify and discuss major problems

associated with gender roles.

C. Discuss the sociological perspectives of these problems and their solutions.

II. Introductory Quiz

1. Women are less hearty than men.

False

2. Gender (how men and women are supposed to act) is natural, not

socially constructed.False

3. Boys adjust more poorly to school and get more attention in school.

True

4. Teachers ask boys more academically challenging questions

in school.True

5. Because more women graduate from college, they receive as many professional degrees and Ph.D.s as

men.

False

6. Women receive less pay than men clearly because they are paid

less for the same exact job.False

7. When surveyed, young men responded that career success was their first priority while young women

put their families first.

True

8. Women should have more leadership in religions.

False

9. The “double standard” in sexual matters has all but disappeared.

False

10. Referring to a mail carrier as a “mail man” has no effect on society.

False

11. The average wage of women has increased over the years, but not

as fast as men’s average wage.False

12. Today’s media repeatedly stereotype men as either violent, sexually aggressive, emotionally

distant or as bumbling idiots.

True

13. The suggestion that men and women get comparable pay for

comparable work is fairly doable.

False

14. The differences in roles between men and women are

biologically based.

False

15. Men originally used their greater size and strength to force women

into a subordinate position.

Possibly

III. What About Next Week?