Midterm Exam For Gender and Society

Republic of the Philippines
Biliran Province State University

(formerly NAVAL STATE UNIVERSITY)
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SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & COMPUTER STUDIES
MIDTERM EXAM
FOR GENDER AND SOCIETY
NAME: CONCORDIA, RANILO JR., G. SECTION & YEAR: BSIS 3A
I. IDENTIFICATION, Identify the correct answer for each item. (2 points each)
1. What biological term we use most often to refer to the act of mating between two organism –
an act which is part of the process of biological reproduction?
- SEX
2. What are the first determinants of sex and elongated bodies of a cell nucleus contain the
genes that parents pass on to their offspring?
- CHROMOSOMES
3. Each cell of a female ovary or male testis contains how many chromosomes?
- 23 CHROMOSOMES
4. What are the two types of sex chromosomes?

- X AND Y CHROMOSOMES
5. What term is used as the secretions of the endocrine glands, which include the pituitary,
adrenal, thyroid and primary sex glands and the pancreas?
- HORMONES
6. What term is used for differentiated social roles, behaviors, capacities, and intellectual,
emotional and social characteristics attributed by a given culture to women and men?
- GENDER
7. What term is used for the way a society is organized according to sex and referred to by some
social scientists?
- MASCULINE AND FEMININE
8. What term that is justified by gender stereotypes about the different personality traits, skills
and capabilities that men and women have?
- GENDER ROLES
9. What term is used in which its main function is to stimulate the development of primary sex
characteristics, for individuals become capable of reproduction?
- HORMONES
10. What are responsible for the development of secondary characteristics?
- HORMONES
11. What term has been used to refer to a system of ideas and beliefs that characterize a particular
class, group or movement. It is one’s world view or framework to analyze and explain
society?
- IDEOLOGY
12. What is the primary socialization agent?

-FAMILY
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13. What played a complementary and reinforcing role in the dissemination of values that were
considered necessary and important in society?
14. Who are biologically equipped to give birth?

- FEMALES
15. What makes people able to make sense of their surroundings and refer to the science of ideas.
- IDEOLOGY
II. TRUE OR FALSE, if your answer is True, write TRUE. If your answer is FALSE CHANGE
THE WRONG WORD/S to make the statement correct.
1. The results of failure to recognize a challenge are manifest not only in the popular media, but
in academic work on language and gender as well.
- TRUE
2. Gender is embedded so thoroughly in our institutions, our actions, our beliefs, and our
desires, that it appears to us to be completely natural.
- TRUE
3. Social norms for heterosexual coupling and care of any resulting children are closely
intertwined with gender.
- TRUE
4. People tend to think of gender as the result of nurture – as social and hence fluid – while sex
is the result of nature, simply given by biology.
- TRUE
5. The most basic and common element in contemporary gender systems is a difference in
gender norms: the assignment to women if the primary responsibility for caring for children
and the home, and to men of the task of providing the income on which their families live.
 The most basic and common element in contemporary gender systems is a difference
in gender ROLES: the assignment to women if the primary responsibility for caring
for children and the home, and to men of the task of providing the income on which
their families live.
6. In the most contemporary societies, this sexual division of labor exists in the form known
technicality as the production reproduction distinction.
- TRUE
7. Most male and female humans also have different secondary characteristics, such as pattern
of body hair distribution, voice pitch and muscular development.
 Most male and female humans also have different secondary SEX
characteristics, such as pattern of body hair distribution, voice pitch and muscular
development.
8. Each cell of a female ovary or male testis contains twenty – one chromosomes; one of these is
the sex chromosome.
 Each cell of a female ovary or male testis contains TWENTY-THREE
CHROMOSOMES; one of these is the sex chromosome.
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9. There are two genders: masculine, ascribed to the male sex; and feminine, ascribed to the
female.
- TRUE
10. The women of many tribes in pre-Hispanic Philippine enjoyed a good measure of property
and political rights, social status, and premarital sexual freedom.
- TRUE
III. ESSAY TYPE (2 points each)
1. Violence against woman is high on the agenda of women’s concerns. What type of legislation
can be initiated to reduce violence against women? How can existing legislation be
strengthened? What specific role can non-government organizations plays in the struggle
against violence against women?
- THE LEGISLATION THAT CAN BE INITIATED TO REDUCE VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN IS THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PROVISION OF THE
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, THIS COULD BE
STRENGTHENED IF WE COULD ELECT A PARTYLIST THAT FOCUSES ON THE
RIGHTS OF WOMEN SO THAT THEY COULD SUBMIT APPEAL TO
STRENGTHENED THE RIGHT OF WOMEN IN OUR INSTITUTION.
2. Religious institutions and the state play a major role in defining sexual behavior. Should these
continue? Why or not? What are the consequences for sexual behavior if the influence of
religion diminishes? Increases? If state regulation decreases? Increases?
- YES, BACAUSE CHURCH IS RESPONSIBLE IN PROPAGATING EARLY SEXIST
IDEAS. CHURCH EDUCATES YOUTH AND PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT SEX
AND PROBABLY BY HAVING AA KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SEX, THEY COULD
AVOID ONE OF THE PROBLEM OF THE GOVERNMENT NOWADAYS, THE
TEENAGE PREGNANCY.
3. Do people in a relationship have a right to claim their partner as sexual property, i.e., does a
relationship give exclusive rights to a partner’s sexual activity?
- NO, BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE COULD CLAIM THE SEXUAL PROPERTY OF AN
INDIVIDUAL NOT UNLESS ITSELF. NO LAWS THAT STATES OR PROVES
THAT ONCE AN INDIVIDUAL IS MARRIED HE OR SHE IS CAPABLE TO CLAIM
HIS/ HER PARTNERS SEXUAL PROPERTY.
4. Suppose you lived in a society with very little gender stereotyping, where women and men
had equal opportunities in jobs and education and similar sexual expectations. Would
prostitution exist in a such a society? Why or why not? Would violence against women exist?
Why or why not?
- NO IT WOULD NOT PROBABLY EXIST, BECAUSE GENDER EQUALITY
HELPS PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS, AND IT
MAKES OUR COMMUNITIES SAFER AND HEALTHIER. IT IS A HUMAN
RIGHT AND IT IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY.
5. What is Gender and Society? Explain.
- GENDER IS A SOCIAL CONCEPT AND REFERS TO THE SOCIAL AND
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ASSIGNS TO PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR SEX.
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Prepared By:
Christine Pilapil Sarsalejo

Subject Instructor
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Republic of the Philippines

Biliran Province State University

NAME: CONCORDIA, RANILO JR., G. SECTION & YEAR: BSIS 3A

4. What are the two types of sex chromosomes?

12. What is the primary socialization agent?

14. Who are biologically equipped to give birth?

III. ESSAY TYPE (2 points each)

Christine Pilapil Sarsalejo

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