CAST 102 Quiz #3

Describes a social system where men are always dominant and women are treated as second-class citizens.

• gender inequality

• gendered education

• patriarchy

• capitalism

Traditional attitudes and orientations that classify certain subjects and pastimes as ‘masculine’ and others as ‘feminine’

• gender norms

• gender inequality

• gender stereotypes

• gender socialization

The difference between what is taught to female and male students which often maintain gender norms and roles in the society

• gendered education

• gender norms

• gender stereotypes

• gender inequality

The intentional or unintentional empowerment of one gender, usually the masculine, to the detriment of the other, usually the feminine in various spheres of society.

• patriarchy

• gender inequality

• gender bias

• social inequality

The increasing concentration of poverty among women, especially unmarried women and their children

• social inequality

• gender inequality

• feminization of poverty

• the underclass

The dominant political ideology in the Caribbean emphasises market-led development (minimum of restrictions by the state) and is also known as free enterprise.

• capitalism

• socialism

• democracy

• communism

The number of people who are actively looking for work but currently do not have a paying job.

• working class

• employment

• jobseekers

• unemployment

Describes the activities of groups who put their beliefs into action such as feminists, environmentalists and trade unionists.

• unionism

• nationalism

• activism

• socialism

Economic/government system where government controls/owns all the means of production on behalf of the people

• capitalism

• socialism

• free enterprise

• industrialization

The section of the economy concerned with and involved in the production of goods and services.

• tourism sector

• public sector

• productive sector

• private sector