Our textbook authors posit that with respect to contemporary gender roles in the U.S.:
A. both females and males have desirable, and undesirable, traits that are not based on their sex.
B. women are assumed to have sex-based traits that are more desirable than the sex-based traits men are assumed to have.
C. men are assumed to have sex-based traits that are more desirable than the sex-based traits women are assumed to have.
D. males are assumed to be superior to females because, as a group, they are physically stronger than females.
Answer: A
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