Bring a couple of pencils and an eraser to the test.

Terms and Concepts to Know (in addition to items on Study Guides 1 and 2):

Identify the theoretical "father" of socio-biology

List the socio-biological reasons for gender inequality

What are the distinctions among monogamy, bigamy, polygamy, polygyny, polyandry

According to socio-biologists, which of these arrangements is the most common arrangement across time and across societies? Which is in the best interest of males? of females? Why?

Identify one or more criticisms of the socio-biological theory of gender inequality.

Why did the "first" women's liberation movement emerge in the 1850s?

Why did the "second" women's liberation movement emerge in the 1960s?

Who was Betty Friedan and what was her contribution to feminism?

What are the tenets of the Equal Rights Amendment? When was it ratified?

Define labor force participation

Compare/contrast the gender composition of white collar, blue collar and pink collar jobs.

Identify trends in women¡¯s and men¡¯s labor force participation rates for the last 50 or so years

Identify trends in the gap between women's and men's earnings over the last 50 or so years

Compare and contrast cohort effects on the gender gap in earnings with age effects on the gender gap in earnings.

List the individual determinants of earnings versus the job-related determinants of earnings. Use these two determinants to explain why men earn more than women.

Compare the gender gap in earnings by the hour, week, month, year.  Which indicator is best?

What is crowding theory and why is it relevant to women's earnings?

What is the motherhood penalty? What are some of the explanations for it?

How much more time do husbands of employed wives spend on housework relative to husbands of unemployed wives?

How much less time do wives who work for pay spend on housework relative to wives who do not work for pay?

Compare/contrast how husbands and wives feel about the "fairness" of the division of labor at home?

Why are wives likely to "concoct narratives" that justify the unfair division of labor at home?

Compare/contrast the following explanations for the unequal division of household labor: time constraints, sex role attitudes, relative resources, absolute resources, gender display.

What is Sanjiv Gupta's contribution to our understanding of the division of household labor? 

(See http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8SUDH6G0.htm)

Potential Essay Questions:

1. Summarize the socio-biological explanation for gender inequality.  Offer at least two criticisms.

2. What is the equal rights amendment?  Why have some (like Phyllis Schlafly) women opposed it? Have the opponents or the proponents won? Why?

3. Discuss several reasons why the second wave of feminism (e.g. the "women's liberation movement") emerged in the late 1960s.  Do America¡¯s women still need a women¡¯s liberation movement? Defend your reply.

4. Why are younger adults more likely to participate in movements for social change than older adults? Distinguish effects of cohort from effects of age.

5. According to Roos and Gatta, there are three factors that determine how much people earn: their individual characteristics, the characteristics of their job, and the propensity their employer to discriminate against them.  According to Davis and Moore, how much people earn depends on the importance of the job they hold and the ease/difficulty with which that job can be filled.  Discuss the ways in which these two explanations are saying the same thing, though they use different words.

6. In what ways does the "Up series" support the idea that there is little intergenerational class mobility in Britain?  In what ways does it refute that idea?

7. Research by Coleman and Rainwater indicated that many people think of social class as a combination of education, occupation, income and lifestyle.  Discuss how the participants in the "Up series" illustrate this relationship.  In other words, discuss how differences in social class background affected the education, occupation, income and lifestyle of the participants in the series.  Use at least three different participants to make your argument. 

8. Women still earn less than men.  Compare and contrast how socio-biologists (van den Berghe)  explain this fact and how split labor theorists (Bonacich) explain this fact.  Which perspective do you think is the more accurate?  Why?

9. Some people restrict the word racism to actions that are conscientiously intended to convey racial superiority.  Other people extend the word racism to include actions that members of the subordinate "race" perceive as conveying racial superiority, even if the perpetrator has no such message in mind.  Which perspective do you think is the more appropriate?  Why?

10. Fill in the blank and defend your choice:  Functionalists are more likely to vote _________  (Democratic or Republican)?