Assignment:
1. Summarize the findings of anthropologist Margaret Mead regarding cultural conditioning and gender roles.
2. What are the functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and feminist views on stratification by gender?
3. What distinctions are made by Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales in terms of the roles played by men and women in the United States?
4. How does institutional discrimination operate in the United States with respect to women? What conclusions can we make about women's equality worldwide?