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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. Women who are independent, ambitious, directive, competitive, and sometimes tough may be seen as “iron maidens.”
a. True
b. False
2. Even when they hold the same titles and positions as men, women continue to be paid less.
a. True
b. False
3. The assumption that serious careers are linear and full-time reflects social relations of previous eras in which most
professionals were men who had stay-at-home wives to care for the home and children.
a. True
b. False
4. FMLA is available to all workers, and employers are required to pay employees who take family leave.
a. True
b. False
5. The United States is the only Western country and one of only three countries in the world that have a paid family leave
policy.
a. True
b. False
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
6. Affirmative action laws ____.
a. attempt to redress past discrimination for members of historically marginalized groups
b. apply only to individuals, not groups that have experienced discrimination
c. judge organizations by the intent of their hiring, admission, and promotion practices rather than end results
d. sometimes result in unqualified candidates being hired, admitted, or promoted
7. Brown v. Board of Education led to what efforts to redress inequities in the United States?
a. Equal opportunity laws
b. Affirmative action
c. Quotas
d. Sexual harassment laws
8. The assumption that careers must follow linear, full-time patterns:
a. is based on work-patterns of previous eras that assumed a typical employee was a male worker with a stay-at-home
wife.
b. leads many women to choose to forego having families.
c. negatively affects both men’s and women’s career trajectories.
d. correctly assumes that workers are most productive and successful when they remain invested in and committed
to a job for a long period of time and without interruption.
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9. When LaKisha does not get a promotion she was expecting, she asks her supervisor to explain what happened. He tells
her that the partners in the firm felt that the promotion would have created a lot of pressure on her and they wanted to
protect her from that. The partners’ evaluation of LaKisha reflects which stereotype of women?
a. Victim
b. Mother
c. Sex object
d. Child
10. Anna and Ben are up for the same promotion at work. When it comes time to make a decision, the management
committee chooses Ben for the position because they think Anna’s commitment to being a good mother to her children
would prevent her from wanting to take on more responsibilities at the office. Anna has just encountered what?
a. Glass walls
b. FMLA
c. Affirmative action
d. The glass ceiling
11. Equal opportunity laws ____.
a. apply to groups, not individuals, that have suffered discrimination
b. deal only with the present- not historical discrimination
c. are judged by results, not intent
d. are the same thing as affirmative action
12. Glass walls is a metaphor to describe ____.
a. invisible barrier to women’s advancement in the workplace
b. a new technology that lets supervisors monitor employees
c. the difference in pay that women and men receive for the same job
d. sex segregation of jobs based on stereotypes of women
13. Brendan is struggling to understand how to use the new reporting software his company has adopted. Rather than
asking the IT director for help, Brendan keeps doing Google searches to try to answer his questions. Brendan is
exhibiting what stereotype of men in the workplace?
a. Fighter
b. Sturdy oak
c. Breadwinner
d. Athlete
14. Which of the following is a reason why women workers tend to lack mentor relationships?
a. Fewer women and minorities hold senior positions in many organizations.
b. Men are often reluctant to mentor women for fear of gossip and innuendo.
c. Men often assume that women are less serious about their careers.
d. All of these are correct.
15. The Lilly Ledbetter Act of 2009:
a. bars employers from retaliating against employees who disclose or ask about pay schedules.
b. states that wage discrimination occurs whenever an employee receives discriminary pay.
c. overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine.
d. requires federal employers to provide maternity leave for all employees.
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16. Old boy network
Instructions: Identify the following:
17. Glass walls
18. Maternal wall
19. Quota
20. Goal
Instructions: Identify the following:
21. Affirmative action policies
22. Glass ceilings
23. Equal opportunity laws
24. Diversity training
Instructions: Identify the following:
25. Mentoring relationships
26. Informal networks
27. Lilly Ledbetter
28. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
29. Glass escalator
30. Workplace bullying
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Answer Key
1. True
2. True
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