首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the lives of the people who operate the ne
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the lives of the people who operate the ne
admin
2015-01-31
80
问题
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the lives of the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have been introduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry take them out of the household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society. In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician, warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however, predicted that women would be liberated from the "social, legal, and economic subordination" of the family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole female sex ... into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability of mechanization’s effects, but they agreed that it would transform women’s lives.
Historians, particularly those investigating the history of women, now seriously question this assumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological
innovations
as the spinning jenny, the sewing machine ,the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resulted in equally dramatic social changes in women’s economic position or in the prevailing evaluation of women’s work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolution was largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics. It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previously seen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880’ s created a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women’ s work". The increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
Women’ s work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household to the office or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupations by gender, lower pay for women as a group, jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women’s household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that technology is always inherently revolutionary in its effects on society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of women both in the labour market and in the home.
Which of the following statement is Not True?
选项
A、Now the phenomenon of choosing employees by gender does no longer exist.
B、Women have little opportunity for promotion,
C、Women are needed to do much housework.
D、Women always get low pay in their occupations.
答案
A
解析
细节题。A项意为“如今,按性别雇佣员工的现象已经不复存在。”这与第三段第二句中“the segregation of occupations by gender”(按性别区分职业)相矛盾,因此不正确。其他选项均可在第三段第二句中找到依据。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/CRh7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Hethinksthewomanshouldn’tspeaksoopenly.B、Hetotallyagreeswiththewoman.C、Hewantstopersuadethewomannottothi
Choiceblindness:Youdon’tknowwhatyouwant[A]Wehaveallheardofexpertswhofailbasictestsofsensorydiscriminationin
Thestudyofanimalsinparksandinthewildhasgivenadeeperknowledgeoftheirhabits:theresulthasbeenagreat【C1】_____
Overthepastdecade,manycompanieshadperfectedtheartofcreatingautomaticbehaviors—habits—amongconsumers.Thesehab
A、TheU.S.government.B、YaleUniversity.C、TheSingaporegovernment.D、TheNationalUniversityofSingapore.C选项表明,本题与某一机构有关,听音
A、Thestoriesprobablyweren’ttrue.B、Tomdoesn’tusuallytellfunnystories.C、She’ssurprisedTomwassoseriouslastnight.
Iaskedsuccessfulpeoplewhatthesecretoftheirsuccesswas.I【B1】______anearlydiscussionwithavicepresidentofalarge
HowtoEncouragePeopletoUsePublicTransportation?1.公共交通有很多益处2.不过,有些人不愿意使用公共交通3.我认为可行的鼓励方法有……
WasteNot,WantNotFeedingthe9Billion:TheTragedyofWasteA)By2075,theUnitedNations’mid-rangeprojectionforglobal
WasteNot,WantNotFeedingthe9Billion:TheTragedyofWasteA)By2075,theUnitedNations’mid-rangeprojectionforglobal
随机试题
来自世界卫生组织的资料显示,各国住院病人发生药品不良反应的比率在l0%一20%,出现不良反应的患者中有5%因为严重反应死亡。在全世界死亡的病人中,约有1/3的患者死于用药不当。据估计,我国不合理用药者占用药者的ll%一26%。《药品不良反应报告和监测管
设直线的方程为,则直线()。
行业标准有()。
专用设备的突出特点是()。
某技术改造项目有三个互斥方案,其投资额及经营费用如下表所示。设标准投资回收期为5年,用追加投资回收期法所选的最优方案为方案()。
甲有限责任公司设股东会、董事会、监事会。该公司经理王某违反法律规定,拖延向股东张某分配利润,张某拟通过诉讼维护自己的权利。下列关于张某诉讼权利的表述中,符合公司法律制度规定的是()。
1935年8月31日,面对意大利对埃塞俄比亚的侵略,美国国会通过了(),规定对交战国实行武器禁运。
下列有关非法制造、买卖、运输、邮寄、储存枪支、弹药、爆炸物罪的说法正确的是()。
改革开放以来,我国工人阶级队伍呈现出的新特点是()
PartOneAAirpollutionisincreasinglybecomingthefocusofgovernmentandcitizenconcernaroundtheglobe.FromMexicoCity
最新回复
(
0
)