Explain the difference between hostile and benevolent sexism.

What will be an ideal response?


Hostile sexism consists of antagonistic and insulting beliefs about women and their roles. Benevolent sexism consists of subjectively positive and well-intentioned beliefs about women and their importance, but it is also patronizing because it portrays women as weak and in need of protection.

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How did the outcome of the Seven Years' War change the relationship between Indian peoples and British colonists in various regions of North America?

How did this altered relationship manifest itself in the laws, territorial lines, Indian-colonist conflicts, and settlement patterns during the decade after of the Seven Years' War?

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What was the central principle of Calvinist doctrine?

A. An individual was predestined for heaven or hell. B. Only a member of clergy could intercede for an individual before God. C. Baptism could only occur during adulthood through free choice. D. An individual's specific actions determined his fate in the afterlife.

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In the late eighteenth century, Britain began transporting criminals to Australia as an alternative to __________.

A. capital punishment B. life imprisonment C. public works imprisonment D. transporting them to France

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Which of these lived in India prior to or during the Harappan period?

A) Aryans B) Kushanas C) adivasis D) Buddhists

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