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1.Since 1950, voluntary unmarried motherhood has increased
because:
Select one:
a. divorce rates have increased.
b. having a child out of wedlock has become less stigmatized.
c. parenting is more rewarding than marriage.
d. women want to challenge the ideology of intensive
motherhood.
2.Examining the division of labor in gay and lesbian households
reveals which general pattern?
Select one:
a. the uniquely family-focused approach to parenting in same-sex
households where it can be difficult to become parents
b. the gendering of tasks and roles regardless of the sex of the
person doing them
c. the declining significance of intensive mothering for younger
people
d. the opportunities that all families have to disregard gender
entirely if they wish
3.What is one reason that divorced women might experience
more happiness than divorced men after their marriage ends?
Select one:
a. Only divorced women are entitled to alimony and tax rebates.
b. Divorced women spend less time on the second shift.
c. Divorced women can now channel their energy toward being a
Super Mom.
d. Divorced women rely more on domestic outsourcing than
divorced men do.
4. Couples with class privilege can build and maintain an equal
division of labor by:
Select one:
a. remaining childless.
b. outsourcing more household labor.
c. sharing the same traditionalist orientation.
d. specializing in either household or market labor. 5.Which statement best reflects how family life is represented in
sitcoms, TV commercials, and parenting advice books in the
United States today?
Select one:
a. Grandparents are in charge of children and the second shift.
b. Parenting is a joint responsibility of a mother and father.
c. Women are primary caretakers of the house and children, and
dads are backups.
d. Fathers are active and knowledgeable caretakers of children.
Which of the following is true about the second shift?
Select one:
a. Single mothers are especially likely to avoid facing this specific
challenge of marriage.
b. It is a gender-neutral problem facing all families, solved
strategically in different ways.
c. On average, it disproportionally burdens women.
d. Generally, married couples divide housework between them on
the basis of who has more time when the first shift of paid work is
over.
The study of how households with only men divided up their
chores found that:
Select one:
a. caring about cleanliness could be masculinized too.
b. doing masculinity meant pretending not to care whether the
house was clean.
c. housework was not gendered unless women were present.
d. policing cleanliness can be more important than policing
gender.
While men and women overwhelmingly want egalitarian
relationships, the majority of men’s "backup plans" can be
described as:
Select one:
a. neo-traditional.
b. traditionalist. c. authoritarian.
d. feminist.
Domestic outsourcing refers to:
Select one:
a. paying non-family members to do family-related jobs.
b. men being responsible for the second shift in a relationship.
c. grandparents being primary caregivers for grandchildren.
d. upholding the ideology of intensive motherhood.
10.What is the best supported explanation for the rise in
childlessness in the United States?
Select one:
a. a decrease in the ideology of intensive mothering.
b. a decrease in the number of men attending college where
women can meet and marry them.
c. the lower value of life and widespread abortions by middleclass women.
d. an increased availability of safe birth control options and
opportunities to excel professionally.
Which of the following statements expresses a major source of
the feminization of poverty?
Select one:
a. There is no ‘daddy tax’ on fathers.
b. Women are not marrying enough to keep mothers from being
found among the working poor today.
c. Women of all races have more precarious and poorly paid jobs
than men.
d. Delaying motherhood leads to higher bankruptcy in middle age.
In low-income households, mothers will often stay at home
because:
Select one:
a. they wish to help nonfamily members in their neighborhood.
b. they wish to please their in-laws by doing more intensive
mothering.
c. day care costs more money than they are able to earn by
working. d. building egalitarian relationships requires mutual sacrifice.
The lifetime effects of lost wages, benefits, and social security
contributions that come with taking time out of the workforce to
raise children is called:
Select one:
a. wage discrimination.
b. the mommy tax.
c. gender salience of housework.
d. outsourcing care.
Young men and young women can be called egalitarians because
they prefer relationships in which:
Select one:
a. they equally value men’s responsibility for earning income and
women’s for child and house care.
b. they both intend to work for pay and forgo having children.
c. they accept that women will only seek paid work when it
doesn’t interfere with their roles as mother and wife.
d. both partners do their fair share of breadwinning,
housekeeping, and child rearing.
The ideology of intensive motherhood is reflected in all of the
following relationships EXCEPT:
Select one:
a. mothers feel they should never allow anyone else to be an
emotionally significant caretaker of their children.
b. child rearing today involves extreme investments of time,
energy, and material resources only from the mothers who can
afford to stay home full time.
c. maximizing children’s educational and career achievement is a
mother’s primary goal.
d. more personal investment in doing childcare than in
housework, especially among upper and upper-middle class
mothers who can afford some domestic outsourcing.
Traditional and neo-traditional heterosexual couples share beliefs
and practices that distinguish them from other couples. The most
central of these would be that: Select one:
a. they believe being at the top of the care chain will help
establish gender equality for their family.
b. they can afford to be pragmatic rather than ideological in their
approach toward negotiating gender in heterosexual
relationships.
c. they resist the ideology of intensive motherhood in favor of
emphasizing women’s housework.
d. they resist reorganizing the second shift on a basis other than
gender.
17.Some couples choose the breadwinner/housewife arrangement
even when they have egalitarian beliefs, often because:
Select one:
a. the alternative of being Super Mom is not practical for women
of their social class or race
b. the women have been socialized to accept a move full-time to
the second shift and men were socialized to be breadwinners.
c. there is a relatively large difference between what the average
husband and wife earns.
d. they know that maintaining care chains helps lower income
families.
18.Which of the following statements is false?
Select one:
a. Some men and women are traditionalists who hold to family
ideologies similar to those in the 1950s.
b. The ideology of intensive motherhood is a dominant model of
parenting in developing countries.
c. Women have a more ambivalent relationship to marriage than
men.
d. On average, men are more dependent on their spouses’ unpaid
work and women are more dependent on their spouses’ incomes. 5. As you grew up, did you ever get bullied for doing things usually associated with boys/girls?
How did this impact your view of yourself? 7. Question for a man: As you grew up, did you ever get bullied for doing things usually
associated with boys?
a. What happened? Can you tell me more about it?
b. How did this make you feel?
c. Did this impact your view of yourself at all? How?
14. Question for a man: Have you ever been told to stop doing something because it was too
feminine or girly?
a. If so, what was it?
b. How did that make you feel?
37. What kinds of women do you really like or respect?
a. What kinds of women do you really dislike or disrespect?
b. Can you explain why?
43. Question for a man: At what point in your life did you feel like you moved from a boy to a
man?
a. What happened? What made you feel like you were now a “man”?
49. Question for a man: Are men obligated to care for and protect women?
a. Do you think most women want to be cared for and protected by a man?
b. Why or why not?
53. Who do you think has more power and control in society, men or women?
a. Why? Can you give some examples? 70. Is it harder in this society to be a man or a woman?
a. What’s hard about being a man?
b. What’s hard about being a woman?
74. Have you ever witnessed someone being treated unfairly because of their sex?
a. What was the situation? Explain.
79. Question for a man: Have you ever felt pressured to act a certain way because you’re a
man?
83. Why do you think it’s unacceptable for men to wear skirts, but women can wear pants？ 86. Question for a man: When you were a kid did you ever want to play with toys that weren’t
meant for boys?
91. Question for a man: Who taught you how to be a man? Where did you learn the rules of
being a man?