What is meant by the "feminization of poverty?"
What will be an ideal response?
It means that an increasing percentage of women are living in poverty throughout the
world (and are associated with low prestige employment).
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At the end of the late Eocene, the global climate became__________
a. cooler and dryer b. cooler and wetter c. warmer and dryer d. warmer and wetter
According to the Marger reading (assigned for the Race and Ethnicity in the United States class), ethnic groups are only culturally defined and are never based on race
a. true b. false
A major contribution of Boas to the field of anthropology was:
a. his emphasis on social evolution. b. his unilineal approach to the study of different cultures. c. his research demonstrating that cultural differences are not explained by biological factors. d. his idea that all human cultures begin as savages.
__________ is a pattern of residence after marriage in which the couple alternates between living with the wife's kin and the husband's kin
a. Matrilocal b. Patrilocal c. Peolocal d. Bilocal