Gender Identity

Question 1

Sex refers to the ____ and anatomical differences between males and females.

Answer 1

biological

Question 2

Gender refers to the socially accepted____ for the members of each sex or to the socially accepted traits of masculinity and femininity.

Answer 2

behaviour

Question 3

Gender ____ is how one learns about socially accepted gender roles through family, school and the media.

Answer 3

socialisation

Question 4

Gender identity is one’s ____ experience of gender.

Answer 4

personal

Question 5

This can ____ with one sex or it can differ completely.

Answer 5

correlate

Question 6

Gender in New Zealand is the cause for some contentions because of the obvious gender ____ between males and females in terms of wealth, income and status.

Answer 6

inequality

Question 7

This is related to social perceptions of ____ which designate that some jobs and positions are suited toward males and others toward females, where male roles are managerial/professional, while female roles tend to be more secretarial/retail – e.g. doctors are men and nurses and women.

Answer 7

gender typing

Question 8

Two factors that work on this basis are the glass ____ in the glass ____.

Answer 8

ceiling elevator

Question 9

The glass ceiling is a promotion barrier that prevents a woman’s ____ mobility and the glass elevator is the process whereby men benefit from their unfair rapid rise in an organisation.

Answer 9

upward

Question 10

One remedy for this is the policy of ____ worth which compares male and female dominated roles and seeks to provide pay parity.

Answer 10

comparable