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1) sex
2) gender
3) primary sex characteristics
4) secondary sex characteristics
5) patriarchy
6) minority group
7) honor killing
8 ) suttee
9) female circumcision
10) feminism
11) gender tracking
12) glass ceiling
13) sexual harassment
14) life span
15) life expectancy
16) gerotranscendence
17) baby boom
18) age cohort
19) baby bust
20) activity theory
21) continuity theory
22) Townsend Plan

A) the practice of burning the living widow with the body of the deceased husband
B) physical distinctions between males and females that are not directly connected to reproduction
C) people who are discriminated against on the basis of physical or cultural characteristics, regardless of their numbers
D) the abuse of one's position of authority to force unwanted sexual demands on someone
E) behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males and females; masculinity or femininity
F) the tendency for college degrees to follow gender-reinforcing male-female distinctions
G) a form of violence against females where a woman who is thought to have disgraced her family is killed by a male relative
H) another term for female genital cutting or clitoral excision
I) vagina, penis, and other organs related to reproduction
J) the mostly invisible barrier that keeps women from advancing to the top levels of the workplace
K) a society or group in which men dominate women; authority vested in males
L) the association of certain activities with one sex or another
M) biological characteristics that distinguish females from males
N) the philosophy that men and women should be politically, economically, and socially equal
O) social expectations of men to have large muscles, endurance and stamina, victory, and achievement
P) a large number of births within a relatively short span of years, leading to a population of individuals who proceed through the life course together
Q) the number of years that an average person at any age, including newborns, can expect to live
R) one of the first retirement proposals, one that would have paid older Americans a monthly stipend funded by a national sales tax
S) the idea that people adjust to retirement by continuing aspects of their earlier lives
T) the maximum length of life of a species; for humans, the longest time that a human can live
U) the self-transformation that the elderly experience to feel more at home with the universe
V) people born at roughly the same time who pass through the life course together
W) a small number of births within a relatively short span of years who proceed through the life course together
X) the view that satisfaction during old age is related to a person's amount and quality of activity

Answer 1

1) M; 2) E; 3) I; 4) B; 5) K; 6) C; 7) G; 8) A; 9) H; 10) N; 11) F; 12) J; 13) D 14) T; 15) Q; 16) U; 17) P; 18) V; 19) W; 20) X; 21) S; 22) R