Our Textbook Authors Posit That with Respect to Contemporary Gender

question 20

Multiple Choice

Our textbook authors posit that with respect to contemporary gender roles in the U.S.:

• A) men are assumed to have sex-based traits that are more desirable than the sex-based traits women are assumed to have.
• B) women are assumed to have sex-based traits that are more desirable than the sex-based traits men are assumed to have.
• C) males are assumed to be superior to females because,as a group,they are physically stronger than females.
• D) both females and males have desirable,and undesirable,traits that are not based on their sex.

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