The World Bank has found that financial credit given to women is good business because of all of the following except:
a. women are more reliable than men in terms of paying back the loans.
b. women tend to spend their profits on better nutrition for their children.
c. women tend to spend their profits on their children’s education.
d. women tend to carry a heavier burden of financial inequality than men.
e. women do approximately one third of the work throughout the world.
ANS: E
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Women in American society use devices like tag questions and rising intonation:
a) To avoid demonstrating strong opinions. b) To appear childlike. c) To show their class status. d) To demonstrate indirect speech.
The traditional classification of humans as hominids and chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans lumped together as pongids:
A. is supported by the discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis and Ardipithecus ramidus. B. is an accurate reflection of evolutionary histories. C. is supported by the discoveries of Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus bahrelghazali. D. is not an accurate reflection of evolutionary histories.
At present the most likely candidate for the stem hominin is __________
a. Australopithecus anamensis b. Orrorin tugenensis c. Ardipithecus ramidus d. Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Based on Table 9.1 in your book, "Patterns in the Sexual Division of Labor," among most societies, the kinds of tasks done predominantly or exclusively by males are:
a. land clearing and preparing the soil.
b. gathering shellfish and fuel.
c. tending small animals.
d. All of these are considered men's work.