Question 1:

‘Even though the public is ready, and women themselves are trained, educated, in the pipeline, and prepared to lead, women are vastly underrepresented at the top ranks'

The White House Project Report, 2009

(a) How do the Functionalists describe the sexual division of labour?

(b) Why aren't women at the top in proportion to their presence in mid-level management?

(c) What are the measures to be taken so as to increase the progress of women into top leadership positions?

Question 2:

(a) What are the factors leading to ‘anomie', and how will it be dealt with?

(b) What are the basic characteristics of a Bureaucracy, according to Weber?

Question 3:

Critically examine the causes and consequences of the more problematic interdependence between work and family life.