The functionalist perspective on gender stratification stresses that:
a. women and men have distinct roles that are important for the survival of the family and society
b. in industrialized societies, wives perform instrumental tasks while husbands perform the expressive tasks.
c. only in advanced industrialized economies is the basic division of labor biological involving such attributes as physical strength and the ability to bear and nurse children.
d. relationships between men and women are stable even in shifting economic times.
a
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