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Richard highly values masculine traits. He has a daughter who is very athletic and strong, while his son is interested in poetry and nature. Richard favors his daughter in all his interactions. Which of the following ideas could explain why Richard favors his daughter over his son?

Our brains often form ideas that are clustered around the concepts of masculinity and femininity. Children, for example, will often assume that a firefighter is male. This assumption, which is based on learned ideas about masculinity, is a good example of ____ memory.

A woman holds the door open for a man who is hurrying into a building behind her, but he hesitates to go through it. The fact that men resist being on the receiving end of chivalry reveals that ____ is about power and inequality, not just being nice or gentlemanly.

Andrew is genetically male, and he believes that his Y chromosome is the source of many sex differences between his genetically female sister and himself. Is he correct?

In contemporary U.S. society, men suffer more from gender inequality as individuals, while women are harmed more categorically. This is because

____ is the most likely to be negatively affected by the effects of aging.

Street harassment is an example of the relationship between hostile sexism and benevolent sexism because

How have ideas about the categories of “male” and “female” changed over time?

Ikemba is a man who immigrated to the United States from Nigeria, a country where sexual minorities are more stigmatized. He is happy to be living in a society that is more accepting of homosexuality, but he resists identifying with the label “gay.” Why might this be?

Vidhi does not have a fixed gender identity. What term best describes them?