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and gender equality?
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Ans: D
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4. Using “sex” to refer to biological differences between men and women and “gender”
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D. The terms sex and gender fail to account for issues related to intersectionality.
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gender
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Multiple Choice ws
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and gender equality?
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A. Laverne Cox became the first openly transgender person to win an Emmy award.
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B. The United Nations endorsed an initiative called “Planet 50-
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50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality.”
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C. The Me Too Movement went viral on Twitter.
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D. A ban on transgender people serving openly in the military was reinstated.
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Ans: D
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ments, and systems of power, privilege, and inequality.
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2. Rhoda Unger (1979) argued for using “sex” to refer to the
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aspects of being female or male while “gender” should be used when discussing t
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4. Using “sex” to refer to biological differences between men and women and “gender”
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to refer to the culturally constructed differences is problematic for which of the followin
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C. It is difficult to pinpoint the precise influence of biology and culture in sex differences.
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D. The terms sex and gender fail to account for issues related to intersectionality.
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