Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The
trend is clearly away from distinguishing work based on:
a. | skill
levels | b. | pay or wage levels | c. | sex or
gender | d. | seniority | | |
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A
serious "cost" of the good-provider role is/was that:
a. | the statuses
attached to the role were confused and overlapping | b. | gender
identification depended only on this one role | c. | gender
identification became almost impossible, though sex identification was
untouched | d. | the fines and court judgments were too expensive to continue
with the role | | |
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When
a wife spends much time and energy helping her husband in his career, this is what is meant by
a(n):
a. | facilitating
couple | b. | two-person single career | c. | sideline
wife | d. | "organizer" | | |
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Society encourages men to give primacy to their ___ and let _______ come
second.
a. | wife;
children | b. | children; wife | c. | work; fictive
kin | d. | work;
family | | |
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The
last women to move into employment outside the home have been:
a. | women recently
widowed | b. | divorced women | c. | young
women | d. | mothers of young children | | |
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The
pronounced tendency for men and women to be employed in different types of jobs is
called:
a. | job
prejudice | b. | ability sifting | c. | mixed-ability
job segregation | d. | occupational segregation | | |
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The
concept associated with househusbands is:
a. | dysfunctional deviance | b. | latent
avoidance | c. | role reversal | d. | gender
exploitation | | |
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The
"second shift" is connected in your text with:
a. | two-job
husbands | b. | two-job wives | c. | the leisure
gap | d. | beginning to
have one's children later rather than earlier | | |
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9.
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Hochschild uses the concept "stalled revolution" to refer to which of
these?
a. | equalizing the
gender difference in income for similar jobs | b. | employers
providing child care at the work site | c. | amount of government concern about all employees' rights for
domestic leave, regardless of sex | d. | increases in husbands' time spent doing household
work | | |
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The
concept of a "trailing spouse" refers to a spouse who:
a. | relocates to
meet the requirements of the other's career | b. | is the last to
finish formal educational requirements for job advancement | c. | faces
insecurities reducing her/him to using professional agencies to check up on the other's
activities | d. | advances at the same rate occupationally but at a slower rate
socially than the other spouse | | |
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