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Chapter 13: Work and Family



Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

The trend is clearly away from distinguishing work based on:
a.
skill levels
b.
pay or wage levels
c.
sex or gender
d.
seniority
 

 2. 

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
 

 3. 

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"
 

 4. 

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
 

 5. 

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
 

 6. 

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
 

 7. 

The concept associated with househusbands is:
a.
dysfunctional deviance
b.
latent avoidance
c.
role reversal
d.
gender exploitation
 

 8. 

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
 

 9. 

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
 

 10. 

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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