The authors of your textbook argue that while many believe that we live in a postfeminist era, in which gendered inequalities have largely been eliminated, we do not in fact live in a culture of gender equality. What reasons does she use to support her argument?
What will be an ideal response?
Women experience a lack of access to and barriers to reproductive choice in the United States. Women continue to earn less money for equivalent work. Less than 19% of the seats in the House of Representatives are held by women. The Senate has not ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Women still spend twice as much time on housework and child care as men.
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In the 1990s, researchers found that almost twice as many women as men were dying during coronary bypass surgery. Why?
What will be an ideal response
According to William Sheldon's classification system, people who were soft or fat belonged in which of the following groups?
a. ectomorphs b. endomorphs c. lactomorphs d. mesomorphs
Ends when one loses independence or must rely on others for activities of daily living
a. Maximum life expectancy b. Average life expectancy c. Active life expectancy d. Dependent life expectancy
The ______ is more sensitive to outliers than is the ______.
median; mean mode; median mode; mean a continuous variable; a discrete variable standard deviation; mode