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What does a Gender Parity Index close to 1 mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pattern gives a Gender Parity Index above 1?Read the answer and worked solution →Which gender bias works without the person being aware of it?Read the answer and worked solution →A manager openly says women make poor leaders. This is which bias?Read the answer and worked solution →'The surgeon says: that boy is my son.' Many assume a man. What is shown?Read the answer and worked solution →Which statement about sexism and gender bias is correct?Read the answer and worked solution →Linking pink with girls and blue with boys is best seen as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Iceland (3.6%) and Egypt (94.9%) differ on 'jobs only for men'. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →Healing moved from women's work to men's. What does this show?Read the answer and worked solution →Fear of confirming a negative group stereotype about oneself is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do gender stereotypes spread so easily?Read the answer and worked solution →In Fagot's play sessions, what shaped how children labelled toys?Read the answer and worked solution →In Jacobs' 1991 model, parents' stereotypes first shape what?Read the answer and worked solution →By which grade did American children already think maths is a 'boys' subject'?Read the answer and worked solution →Lipman-Blumen found women raised with traditional gender roles were less likely to want what?Read the answer and worked solution →Deaux's view of 'nurturing' women is that nurturance is what?Read the answer and worked solution →Gilligan argued that tests of maturity were based on what?Read the answer and worked solution →In Parsons' 1955 model, 'Model A' describes what?Read the answer and worked solution →For West and Zimmerman, 'nurse' and 'student' are what?Read the answer and worked solution →Social constructionism says gender is mainly shaped by what?Read the answer and worked solution →Calling gendered behaviour wholly social is an extreme case of which position?Read the answer and worked solution →Which constructionist stream stresses meanings made through language?Read the answer and worked solution →Gender interacting with class, race and other inequalities is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →The idea that gender gives people fixed necessary attributes is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →A person with qualities of both male and female gender is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Some societies recognise more than two genders. What does this show?Read the answer and worked solution →A social order where men dominate women is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can AI systems show gender bias?Read the answer and worked solution →Society expects Ravi to hide his tears. This expectation is a what?Read the answer and worked solution →John Money's team found gonads and hormones did what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What does a Gender Parity Index close to 1 mean?

  1. Girls far outnumber boys
  2. Boys far outnumber girls
  3. No girls are enrolled
  4. Girls and boys nearly equal
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Correct answer: D. Girls and boys nearly equal

1. The Gender Parity Index measures enrolment of girls against boys. 2. The closer it is to one, the closer to gender equality. 3. Large gaps appear as values far from one. _Source: Wikipedia, "Sex differences in education" (rev 1374878299, CC BY-SA 4.0), section "Gender differences in school enrolment"_

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Which pattern gives a Gender Parity Index above 1?

  1. More boys than girls
  2. Exactly equal numbers
  3. More girls than boys
  4. More schools than pupils
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Correct answer: C. More girls than boys

1. When the index is above 1 there are more females than males. 2. Below 1 means more males than females. 3. Exactly 1 would mean equal numbers. _Source: Wikipedia, "Sex differences in education" (rev 1374878299, CC BY-SA 4.0), section "Gender differences in school enrolment"_

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Which gender bias works without the person being aware of it?

  1. Explicit gender bias
  2. Implicit gender bias
  3. Open gender bias
  4. Legal gender bias
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Correct answer: B. Implicit gender bias

1. Implicit bias is unconscious. 2. Explicit bias is conscious and deliberate. 3. Open and legal bias are not the standard terms. _Source: Wikipedia, "Gender bias" (rev 1375706865, CC BY-SA 4.0), section "Lead section"_

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