ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
(Gardiner, Chapter 8: Gender & Sexuality)
How does culture influence gender socialization in Korea? - CORRECT ANSWER --
Girls are expected to be kind and nurturing and boys are expected to be strong and courageous.
- Men provide financial support and women tend to the house.
- Schools in Korea are gender segregated but both have the opportunity for education
- Male curriculum are required to take technology-type courses and women take home
economics, subjects geared toward economics and child-bearers.
- Fathers usually receive custody of kids and women who fear losing their children remain in
unhappy marriages.
(Gardiner, Chapter 8: Gender & Sexuality)
How does culture influence gender socialization in Japan? - CORRECT ANSWER --
Modernization has begun to alter Japan such as, women remaining single or work outside the
home.
- Some old traditions, the eldest male child is responsible for carrying on the family lineage and
entitled to an automatic inheritance on the family property. (Might not be entitled to the
inheritance today but considered responsible for supporting and caring for aging parents
(daughter in laws generally provide such care)).
- Females are under less academic pressure than males
,- Men gravitate toward the occupational role while women are committed to the domestic role.
- Childrearing remains the most important aspect in women's lives, although more women are
working outside the home, the commitment continues (decreasingly).
- Women tend to control almost all household duties, finances, children's education and share
household labor while men often spend long hours working and commuting.
(Gardiner, Chapter 8: Gender & Sexuality)
How does culture influence gender socialization in the Islamic culture? - CORRECT
ANSWER - - Varies in interpretation and practice
A Muslim woman is entitled to the following rights:
- Independent ownership, to marry whom she likes and to end an unsuccessful marriage,
education, keep her own identity, sexual pleasure, inheritance, election and nomination to
political offices and participation in public affairs, and to respect.
- Sons carry on the family name and daughters do not economically contribute to the family,
there is a definite preference for male children
- Marriage: the wife has a right to stipulate her own conditions and the dowry belongs to her (but
inherits ½ the part men do most of the time)
- When women marry it is a new stage of life that signals they are good wives and mothers (way
of gathering respect)
- Quran advocated equal partnership (husband and wife) the husband assumes the authoritarian
role and women becomes submissive to his wishes and orders
- Education for females are not a priority, highest rates of illiteracy, lowest level of schooling,
and smallest number of women in paid employment.
, (Gardiner, Chapter 8: Gender & Sexuality)
How does culture influence gender socialization in India? - CORRECT ANSWER - - Male
children are valued more than females
- Marriage is essential for females (doesn't matter the age, religion, class) and optional for males
- Females are viewed as visitors because they leave home and reside with the husband's family.
Hindu women:
- Role relationships: daughter, daughter in law, wife, mother, and achieves highest status as a
mother of a son.
- Daughter in law's status is increased if she gives birth to a boy
- Divorce is rare and seen as a women's failure as a wife and daughter in law
- Disgrace on them for walking out of a marriage for any reason (disgrace her parental family)
Older women are under the authority of men
- Younger women are under the authority of men and women
Socioeconomic Status:
- Upper middle class and upper class women are likely to have an education and be exposed to
modern (western) thought
- School is considered essential for boys and not necessarily for girls
- Girls though are taught to read and write
- But often kept at home to care for younger children (especially lower SES families)
(Gardiner, Chapter 8: Gender & Sexuality)