In Addition to Promoting the View That Men and Women

question 26

Multiple Choice

In addition to promoting the view that men and women are very different, gender researcher Sandra Bem pointed out that much research has an androcentric bias, which means that

• A) men are the standard against which women are compared.
• B) researchers try to reduce gender differences to biological factors such as androgen.
• C) many topic areas of psychology are phalocentric.
• D) original contributions become difficult because biology and sociology have also begun to do gender research.

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