Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Female peer groups tend to encourage and reward compliance with feminine stereotypes.
2. Girls and women are particularly targeted for sexual harassment and assault. This is not confined to peer interactions, but may come from faculty and coaches.
3. An increasing problem for all students is bullying, which is behavior intended to hurt, embarrass, shame or intimidate another person.
4. Undergraduate college women report feeling compelled to achieve effortless perfection: to be beautiful, fit, popular, and smart without any visible effort. Undergraduate women felt overwhelmed by the thought that they should be perfect in all realms of life.
5. College women are also socialized into a culture of romance. One reason is some women become discouraged by barriers to their academic achievement and a second is peer pressure that emphasize attracting men as more important than anything else.
1. T
2. T
3. T
4. T
5. T
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What will be an ideal response?
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