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During the past 34 years, wages for everyone at or below the 30th percentile of the income distribution have essentially been fl
During the past 34 years, wages for everyone at or below the 30th percentile of the income distribution have essentially been fl
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2015-03-20
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During the past 34 years, wages for everyone at or below the 30th percentile of the income distribution have essentially been flat, while wages for the poorest 10 percent of workers have fallen. At all income levels, women earn less on average than men do.
Since wages for the lowest income group have fallen while wages at the highest income group have grown, income inequality has also increased. However, while there’s lots of talk about the adverse consequences of growing income inequality, it’ s really poverty, not income inequality, that’ s the problem. And, poverty is a particularly big problem for women and girls, who make up more than half the people living in poverty.
Poverty has harmful consequences for women. Economist Barry Bosworth at the Brookings Institution looked at life expectancy for people who have reached age 55 and found that, for example, a 55-year-old woman at the bottom of the income distribution can expect to live a decade less— eighty years rather than ninety—than a woman of the same age at the top of the income distribution. These consequences are getting worse over time for low-income women. As Bosworth’ s research paper reported, while life expectancy generally increases over time, that’ s not the case for low-income women. A woman bora in 1940 who is at the bottom of the income distribution has seen her life expectancy shrink by 2.1 years relative to the same low-income women born 20 years earlier.
A good way to raise the wages of women is to raise the education levels of women. The more educated a woman is, the more income she earns. Economist David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the median woman with a college degree earned about $23, 000 more a year than a woman who terminated her education once she earned her high school diploma.
There’ s a another way to increase wages. According to the Economic Policy Institute, there are some unpleasant explanations for low wages. Some employers inappropriately classify workers as independent contractors and some employers engage in "wage theft." Government is trying best to do something about this. "Wage theft" occurs when employers do things like pay less than the minimum wage, don’ t pay overtime rates, and require unpaid work, and seems to be a wide-spread problem. Since women make up two-thirds of workers in amount of service industries—where such problems occur frequently—such as fast-food industry, they’d likely benefit from reduced wage theft.
Which is the necessary way to solve women’ s poverty?
选项
A、Popularize national undergraduate education.
B、Encourage the occupational diversity.
C、Promote the fair distribution of social wealth.
D、Eliminate gender inequality.
答案
A
解析
文章中第四段和第五段分别提出了两种解决贫困的办法,一是提高女性的受教育水平.二是政府加强对企业中“偷减工资”的监管力度。那么正确的选项一定要对应这两点信息中的一条或者两条。A项“普及国家本科教育"对应原文中“提高女性受教育水平”的信息,因此A项为正确答案。B项“鼓励职业多样化”,C项“促进社会财富公平分配”,D项“消除男女不平等”,三项均不是原文中提及的解决办法,故不选。
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