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What is the current wage gap (what is the magnitude of the wage gap)? Describe 2 distinct causes of the Gender Wage gap. What is the evidence (data) suggesting that discrimination plays at least some part in the wage gap? 

Current data on the gender pay gap shows that women’s median weekly earnings were about _________of men’s median weekly earnings.

A person who was born biologically male but identifies as a woman is:

“The tendency to regard one’s ethnic group as the center of everything and to evaluate other groups in reference to it” is a definition of:

Eccles has proposed a(n) __________________ model of achievement and course choice to explain why women stop taking math and science courses in high school and college.

In general, which of these ethnic groups has the most traditionally defined gender roles?

How is age related to the gender pay gap?

Research shows that people perceive women less favorably than men as potential occupants of leadership positions. Furthermore, when women engage in leadership behavior, the behavior is evaluated less favorably than the same behavior enacted by a man. These findings support which theory?

Eccles’ model is based on the belief that gender differences in math performance are not so much caused by gender differences in ______________ as by gender differences in _________________.

Describe the four dilemmas created by microaggressions. Please elaborate on each one in a few sentences; do not just list them.