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Chapter 10- Gender and Age

Introduction to Sociology- Henslin Textbook
T. Esguerra
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______ ________ is the mostly invisible barrier that keeps women from advancing to the top levels at work.
The ______ _______ of the U.S. women's won the right to vote fro women.
_________ ________ is the abuse of one's position of authority to force unwanted sexual demands on someone.
The ______ _______ sought to raise women's pay, change policies on violence against women and to legalize abortion.
Men-as-a-group dominating women-as-a-group; authority is vested in males.
Female __________ is a cultural practice that happens in mostly Muslim African, parts of Malaysia & Indonesia. It involves cutting the clitoris off or sometimes most of the genitalia.
_______ _____ males' and females' unequal access to property, power, and prestige.
The behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males and females; masculinity or femininity.
_______ _______ refers to when women teach their daughters traditional "female" activities such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of children and men teach their sons traditional "male" activities such as yard work, fixing vehicles and manual labor.
________ ________
______ ______ is the number of years that an average person at any age, including newborns, can expect to live.
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This is an ancient custom where adult males marry female children & marrying children to one another.
______ ________is the maximum length of life of a species; for humans, the longest that a human has lived.
_______ is the prejudice and discrimination directed against people because of their age; can be directed against any age group, including youth.
_______ Theory is a theory focusing on how people adjust to retirement by continuing aspects of their earlier lives.
________ theory suggests that as people grow old, they transcend their limited views of life. The become less self-centered and begin to feel more at one with the universe.
The _______ wave of feminism worked on fighting gender inequalities, raising women's pay, changing policies on violence against women and legalizing abortion.
_______ __________refers to how college degrees tend to follow gender, which reinforces male-female distinctions.
The philosophy that men and women should be politically, economically, and socially equal; organized activities on behalf of this principle.
________ of America is the growing percentage of older people in the U.S. population.
___________ Theory is the view that society is stabilized by having the elderly retire (disengage from ) their positions of responsibility so the younger generation can step into their shoes.
Biological characteristics that distinguish females and males, consisting of primary and secondary sex characteristics.
__________ Theory is the view that satisfaction during old age is related to a person's amount and quality of activity.
______ _____ are people born at roughly the same time who pass through the life course together.