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Discuss some of the differences in marriage and partnership across the world as discussed in the text. How might gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and/or other concepts from the text shape these differences?

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A legal partnership freely chosen on the basis of love and compatibility, and composed of a sole male breadwinner plus economically dependent wife and children is known as _______ .


A) institutionalized marriage
B) marriage gradient
C) gendered intimacy
D) modern marriage

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Women worldwide are more likely to work in the formal economy.

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A way of dividing housework and childcare that is based on personal choice, aptitude, and fairness rather than the gendered division of labor is known as _______.


A) gendered parenting
B) co-parenting
C) degendered parenting
D) egalitarian parenting

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The network of grandmothers, sisters, aunts, or cousins who shared the tasks of child rearing in the African American community came to be known in the 1980s and 1990s as which of the following?


A) Transnational mothers
B) Othermothers
C) Comadres
D) The sandwich generation

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One of the concerns of China's impending marriage squeeze is ______.


A) an increase in fertility
B) an expansion of the sex industry
C) an increase in sex-selective abortions
D) delayed marriage

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Which theoretical perspective would say that even household chores and childcare are ways we perform gender?


A) Doing gender
B) Hegemonic masculinity
C) Intersectionality
D) Heteronormativity

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Transnational mothers have redefined motherhood to include which role more commonly associated with fatherhood?


A) Coach
B) Mentor
C) Disciplinarian
D) Breadwinning

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The only industrialized nations that provide no federally mandated paid parental leave are ______.


A) The United States and Russia
B) Australia and Russia
C) The United States and Australia
D) England and Russia

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A group of people not related by blood, marriage, or adoption, but who think of themselves as family are known as ______.


A) modern families
B) nuclear families
C) families of choice
D) families by the census

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When the _______ is imbalanced, it can cause a ________.


A) demographic fraction, sex ratio
B) sex ratio, marriage gradient
C) sex ratio, marriage squeeze
D) marriage squeeze, marriage gradient

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A pattern in which women tend to "marry up" while men "marry down" in mate selection is known as ______.


A) companionate marriage
B) marriage gradient
C) heterogamy
D) homogamy

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In Vietnam, children of transnational mothers are more likely to live with a grandparent while their mothers are working abroad.

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Wage labor made young men less dependent upon their parents and allowed them greater choice in marriage partner.

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In Black lesbian families, biological mothers often provide more childcare.

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The tendency, sometimes enforced by norms or rules, to marry only others within the same social group is known as:


A) Endogamy
B) Exogamy
C) Homogamy
D) Monogamy

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The doctrine of separate spheres is racially biased in that it assumes men of all racial categories have had equal access to earning a wage that would allow him to support his family.

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_______ is defined as a sense that certain tasks are more appropriate for one gender than the other.


A) Household task factor
B) Institutionalized labor pattern
C) Sexual division of labor
D) Patriarchal dividend

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Women with children aged one and over now have the exact same rate of labor force participation as childless women.

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In 2010, the sex ratio at birth (SRB) in China was 118 (meaning 118 men for every 100 women).

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