Gender Stratification
Name:_________________________
1. Is the structural-functional or social-conflict analysis of gender role inequality more convincing? Why?
2. Analyze how your own gender role has been shaped by your family, peers, school and the mass
media. Which seems to have had the most impact on you?
3. Look at the graph of men’s and women’s athletic performance in this chapter. What do you think
accounts for the drastic drop in women’s times?
4. Read the box in your text regarding female genital mutilation.
Does the U.S. have the right to impose our beliefs on other countries and other cultures?
Who decides what is right?
What gives them the right to decide?
How do you think the U.S. would respond if several African countries said we should stop male
circumcision?
5. Compare the global maps of Women’s Power and Female Genital Mutilation in our text. What
similarities do you see that might explain FGM?
6. Is gender biologically or culturally based? Could you raise a child to act and think like the opposite
sex?