Which of the following statements is correct concerning the biases against women in the health-care system?
a. Women are less likely than men to have full-time employment, so their schedules are more flexible and they are more likely to participate in medical research.
b. Important medical research that has implications for women's lives has often excluded females from the research population.
c. Women are often depicted in medical textbooks, creating the impression that women are sick, rather than healthy.
d. Women experience substantial discrimination in applying to medical school.
Question 2According to the discussion of women in medicine,
a. women have been welcomed in medicine to a greater extent than in other traditionally male disciplines such as law.
b. at present, about half of medical school graduates are female.
c. attitudes toward women in medicine are still so negative that women currently constitute fewer than 25 of students in medical school.
d. at present, we have no evidence of discrimination against women who pursue careers in medicine.
Question 3Suppose that an acquaintance of yours asks, Why should there be a chapter about women's health in your Psychology of Women textbook? One correct response would be that this chapter is necessary
a. to demonstrate that women and men are even more similar in their physical health than they are in their mental health.
b. to dismiss the myth that physicians treat women differently than men, because gender bias no longer occurs.
c. to discuss the kind of health problems that women are most likely to experience.
d. to point out that most of women's psychological problems can be traced to physical illnesses.
Question 4The chapter on women's physical health pointed out that the only kind of female health problem that receives abundant attention is
a. lung cancer.
b. heart disease.
c. problems with the reproductive system.
d. Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Question 5Which of the following students' statements about gender and health is true?
a. Florence: Approximately 40 of older women experience a chronic health problem..
b. Clara: Most diseases produce similar symptoms in women and men, but those symptoms are interpreted differently by physicians..
c. Norma: The female body has more fat and less fluid than the male body..
d. Grace: Women's reproductive health has not been extensively studied..
Question 6The introduction to the chapter on women and physical health emphasizes that
a. the same pattern of no major gender differences is even more true in this chapter than in previous chapters.
b. an important gender difference is that alcohol has less influence on women, even when factoring in a person's body weight.
c. the situation is different when we consider the research on physical health; here, the female is considered normative.
d. gender often influences how a health problem is diagnosed.
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