Pageant Questions: Gender

Pageant Sample Questions: Gender, Feminism, Differences Between the Sexes

• Who is stronger: men or women? Why?


• Do you think that women and minorities are given an advantage, not just equality?


• What do you believe is a mother’s most important mission?


• Should men and women both be drafted in time of war? What about mothers?


• Who handles loneliness better? Men or women?


• Is the country ready for a woman president? What woman do you feel is best qualified to serve?


• Do you agree with feminist author Susan Faludi’s claims that women’s lib has robbed men of their masculine roles?


• Who is stronger: men or women? Why?


• Would you ever demonstrate for civil rights or women’s rights? Why or why not?


• Has women's lib robbed men of their masculine roles?


• With older men like Tony Randall and Michael Douglas marrying women who are decades younger and starting families at retirement age - do you think men have an unfair advantage in love?


• The president of Harvard University once stated that he feels that males have a biological advantage over females in math and science. What is your reaction to that statement?


• What is your stand on transgender people (a person born a male who uses hormonal treatments and cosmetic surgery to become a female) being allowed to compete in women's pageants?


• Can women learn anything from men?


• Can men learn anything from women?


• What is the quality that sets women and men apart from each other?


• Do you get along better with men or women, and why?


• (if you are a political science major or state that you intend to go into politics) Who is Madeleine Albright? (First woman to be appointed as Secretary of State)


• Gloria Steinem, the famous feminist and critic of marriage, recently married. Are feminists “softening?”


• What do you think of Sarah Palin?


• What do you think of Nancy Pelosi?
• Who is Nancy Pelosi?(The first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives)


• (If you are a pre-law major or law school student) Who is Janet Reno? (The first woman U.S. attorney general)


• Who is Sonia Sotomayor? (First Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice and the third woman to serve on the high court)


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