Research on Gender Prejudice and Discrimination Indicates That

question 15

Multiple Choice

Research on gender prejudice and discrimination indicates that

• A) the majority of the world's children without basic schooling are boys.
• B) in most countries men and women share equally in the duties of child raising.
• C) people perceive their fathers as more intelligent than their mothers despite gender equality in intelligence scores.
• D) there is little evidence that females are more likely to be aborted than males.

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