MTSU Social Work Department

SW 4480: Social Work with Groups

Are You a Feminist?

This material comes from Social Work with Groups by Charles Zastrow (page 224).

 

Answer "true" or "false" to the following statements:

 

1. Men make better supervisors than women.

 

2. Men make better leaders than women.

 

3. A woman would not do as good a job as a man in being President of this country.

 

4. Women should have the primary responsibility for raising children in our society.

 

5. In a heterosexual couple, the man should be the head of the household.

 

6. A male and female living together should share the housework equally.

 

7. Women and men living together tend to share the housework equally in our society.

 

8. Women should have the same access to jobs and social status as men.

 

9. A man who frequently tells jokes that are degrading to women in a work setting where women are present is guilty of sexual harrassment.

 

10. I am willing to advocate on behalf of women.

 

11. Our society is generally structured politically, socially, and economically by and for men.

 

12. In heterosexual couples, the male has the responsibility to be the primary breadwinner.

 

13. It is generally inappropriate for a woman to ask a man out on a date.

 

14. A male has a right to expect sexual gratification after dating a woman several times.

 

 

“True” answers to 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11 and “false” answers to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, and 14 probably hae a belief system that is consistent with the feminist perspective.