SOC 220 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Why have marriage conventions differed for professional blacks and whites? How have
distinct cultural values regarding women emerged in the African-American community?
In what ways have the historical context of Black families foreshadowed what we see
among White families today? - Answer -I DO NOT KNOW
How has men's contribution to housework and child care changed? What types of tasks
are they doing? How much time are they spending? Why has this shift happened? -
Answer -Men are helping out with child care and other family contributions
Child care and domestic responsibilities...cooking, cleaning etc.
Six hours a week of child care ten hours a week of other family work.
Stereotypes are crumbling and the shift is more toward men helping out and "doing their
part."
How did the Great Recession affect men? Why didn't it affect women as much? What
are some misconceptions about how women fared during the recession? - Answer -So,
it's true that men were disproportionately affected by job loss during the Great
Recession. But unemployment peaked at different times for men and women. When
comparing unemployment rates, men were hit harder during the recession with a higher
level of unemployment.
What is the Stalled Revolution? Are we seeing a stalled revolution? Which moms stay
home with their kids? What are the trends in women's employment, women's household
work (including child care), and stay at home moms? - Answer -Since the '70s, women
have poured into the workplace, compelled by economic necessity and personal
ambition, to the point where dual-wage-earner families are now the norm.
Instead of a stalled revolution, we're seeing a "gender convergence."
Women with the poorest husbands (in the bottom quarter of male earnings) most likely
stay at home followed by women with the very richest husbands (top 5% of male
earners)
In what ways are family-friendly policies important to the gender gap in pay? How might
policies in employment narrow the gender pay gap? What has improved over time and
why are we still behind in terms of the gender gap in pay? What are the reasons for the
pay gap? - Answer -I DO NOT KNOW
What are the historical trends over the last 50 years in gender differences in pay? Why
do we still not have equal pay between men and women? - Answer -From 1960s-1990s
women's employment rose dramatically. Women said they didn't want to just be
housewives. Leveled off around 2000. As of 2007 76% of women with school aged
children were in labor force. 62% of those with school aged children were in the labor
force.
Gender Differences in Work
, Glass Ceiling: Point women reach in management, work, etc. where they can't go any
higher. Partially due to childbearing.
Glass Escalator: When Men are teachers, they're much more likely to be quickly
promoted to vice principal than women in the same field with the same qualifications.
Ex: Male nurses. -- WHEN MEN ARE IN FEMALE DOMINATED POSITIONS THEY
CAN EASILY RISE TO THE TOP.
Gender Difference in Powerful Positions = More Men named John own businesses than
women.
Care Work - Answer -is work performed face-to-face for the purpose of enhancing the
capabilities of another person
House work - Answer -is work to maintain a household's functions. Most housework is
devoted to cleaning and cooking, but maintenance, working in the yard, shopping, and
paying bills are housework as well.
Market work - Answer -work done by employees for pay
System of care - Answer -how a society accomplishes the necessary care work and
housework
occupational gender segregation - Answer -with men and women having jobs in
separate occupations.
gender division of labor - Answer -the allocation of work between men and women in
society
work-family conflict - Answer -when the time demands, strains or obligations of work or
family roles make it difficult for people to fulfill their obligations in either role
Men's Changing Contribution to Family Work, Oriel Sullivan - Answer -Revolution: a
slow dripping of change, sometimes unnoticeable from year to year, but change in the
end is persistent enough to lead to the slow dissolution and reformations of previously
existing structures in processes that stretch perhaps over generations.
Co-incidence of changes in this wider context with the growing empirical evidence for
changes in gender practices in the home.
Gender consciousness as the extent of consciousness or awareness of gender issues
Life in a Dual-Earner couple Before, During, and After the Great Recession, Davis &
Owen - Answer -Great recession created dual-earner families.
women in dual-earner households do more housework than men
when only one spouse worked-full time, it appears that men and women report
approximately the same number of housework hours.
Brief: Equal Pay Symposium: 50 Years Since the Equal Pay Act of 1963 - Answer -
President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, amending the earlier Fair Labor
Why have marriage conventions differed for professional blacks and whites? How have
distinct cultural values regarding women emerged in the African-American community?
In what ways have the historical context of Black families foreshadowed what we see
among White families today? - Answer -I DO NOT KNOW
How has men's contribution to housework and child care changed? What types of tasks
are they doing? How much time are they spending? Why has this shift happened? -
Answer -Men are helping out with child care and other family contributions
Child care and domestic responsibilities...cooking, cleaning etc.
Six hours a week of child care ten hours a week of other family work.
Stereotypes are crumbling and the shift is more toward men helping out and "doing their
part."
How did the Great Recession affect men? Why didn't it affect women as much? What
are some misconceptions about how women fared during the recession? - Answer -So,
it's true that men were disproportionately affected by job loss during the Great
Recession. But unemployment peaked at different times for men and women. When
comparing unemployment rates, men were hit harder during the recession with a higher
level of unemployment.
What is the Stalled Revolution? Are we seeing a stalled revolution? Which moms stay
home with their kids? What are the trends in women's employment, women's household
work (including child care), and stay at home moms? - Answer -Since the '70s, women
have poured into the workplace, compelled by economic necessity and personal
ambition, to the point where dual-wage-earner families are now the norm.
Instead of a stalled revolution, we're seeing a "gender convergence."
Women with the poorest husbands (in the bottom quarter of male earnings) most likely
stay at home followed by women with the very richest husbands (top 5% of male
earners)
In what ways are family-friendly policies important to the gender gap in pay? How might
policies in employment narrow the gender pay gap? What has improved over time and
why are we still behind in terms of the gender gap in pay? What are the reasons for the
pay gap? - Answer -I DO NOT KNOW
What are the historical trends over the last 50 years in gender differences in pay? Why
do we still not have equal pay between men and women? - Answer -From 1960s-1990s
women's employment rose dramatically. Women said they didn't want to just be
housewives. Leveled off around 2000. As of 2007 76% of women with school aged
children were in labor force. 62% of those with school aged children were in the labor
force.
Gender Differences in Work
, Glass Ceiling: Point women reach in management, work, etc. where they can't go any
higher. Partially due to childbearing.
Glass Escalator: When Men are teachers, they're much more likely to be quickly
promoted to vice principal than women in the same field with the same qualifications.
Ex: Male nurses. -- WHEN MEN ARE IN FEMALE DOMINATED POSITIONS THEY
CAN EASILY RISE TO THE TOP.
Gender Difference in Powerful Positions = More Men named John own businesses than
women.
Care Work - Answer -is work performed face-to-face for the purpose of enhancing the
capabilities of another person
House work - Answer -is work to maintain a household's functions. Most housework is
devoted to cleaning and cooking, but maintenance, working in the yard, shopping, and
paying bills are housework as well.
Market work - Answer -work done by employees for pay
System of care - Answer -how a society accomplishes the necessary care work and
housework
occupational gender segregation - Answer -with men and women having jobs in
separate occupations.
gender division of labor - Answer -the allocation of work between men and women in
society
work-family conflict - Answer -when the time demands, strains or obligations of work or
family roles make it difficult for people to fulfill their obligations in either role
Men's Changing Contribution to Family Work, Oriel Sullivan - Answer -Revolution: a
slow dripping of change, sometimes unnoticeable from year to year, but change in the
end is persistent enough to lead to the slow dissolution and reformations of previously
existing structures in processes that stretch perhaps over generations.
Co-incidence of changes in this wider context with the growing empirical evidence for
changes in gender practices in the home.
Gender consciousness as the extent of consciousness or awareness of gender issues
Life in a Dual-Earner couple Before, During, and After the Great Recession, Davis &
Owen - Answer -Great recession created dual-earner families.
women in dual-earner households do more housework than men
when only one spouse worked-full time, it appears that men and women report
approximately the same number of housework hours.
Brief: Equal Pay Symposium: 50 Years Since the Equal Pay Act of 1963 - Answer -
President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, amending the earlier Fair Labor
