Economics MCQs

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Studies other than Mead,s show that_________________?
A. In most cultures’ males are more aggressive than females
B. There is no pattern to aggressive behavior in either males or females
C. Biology is totally unimportant in sex role behavior
D. Aggression is strictly socially learned
The female role as a passive and domestic creature may be conditioned by_______________?
A. Children’s picture books
B. Stress on male sports in school
C. Tv ads showing women as domestics
D. All of the above
The “feminization of poverty ” refers to________________?
A. The fact that most men are rich
B. An equal number of men and women being poor now
C. The fact that female-headed households are usually poor
D. The fact that women are more blessed than men in spite of poverty
There is no conclusive evidence that differences in the behavior of the two genders are due to______________?
A. Anatomical differences
B. Hormonal differences
C. Chromosomal differences
D. All of the above
It has been found that disengagement is usually________________?
A. Very voluntary
B. Never forced
C. Often forced
D. Rarely enforced
Ageism asserts that___________________?
A. Wisdom accompanies advancing age
B. Each stage of life has its own rewards
C. The young are superior to the old
D. Life begins forty
It is fairly certain that male and female brains________________?
A. Are functionally identical
B. Differ in left-right communication
C. Distribute sensory functions differently
D. Differ in size weight and capacity
Form the dawn of history through the development of agriculture______________?
A. Men and women participated in a sex-based division of labor
B. Human infants and their mothers had to protected
C. Males were assigned hunting and other dangerous tasks
D. All of the above
Women first assumed subordinate roles when they_________________?
A. Stayed home when men hunted
B. Ceased to gather the majority of the food supply
C. Assumed primary child-care responsibilities
D. Left home to gather food
Male dominance is expressed_____________________?
A. In spite of ours being an egalitarian society
B. By the frequent instances of sexual harassment on the job
C. For the lack of wage parity
D. All of the above