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Short answer questions (5×20= 100 points). Answer all 5 questions, which have been selected from your
weekly learning objectives. Write a paragraph (10-15 sentences) for each, highlighting the main concepts
and findings from the course that help us answer the questions. You must use information from the specific
module (Textbook Title & Edition: Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions (Second edition) Authors: Lisa
Wade & Myra Max Ferree). In addition, you may draw from the course materials more widely
1. If both men and women are constrained by a binary gender system, why is it that more women than men
find this system unfair and unequal?
2. If marriage is better for women than ever, why do women married to men report lower levels of
happiness than men married to women, women married to women, and single women?
3. How does gender affect the distribution of housework, emotion work, and intimacy among spouses and
partners in a household?
4. If women now have equal rights in the workplace, why aren’t they as successful as men at work?
5. Why is gender considered to be an important axis of inequality?