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
In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry, women were employed primarily inlow-paying, low-skill jobs. To explain t
In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry, women were employed primarily inlow-paying, low-skill jobs. To explain t
admin
2009-04-18
48
问题
In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry, women were employed primarily inlow-paying, low-skill jobs. To explain this segregation of labor by gender, economists have reliedon the useful theory of human capital. According to this theory, investment in human capital-theacquisition of difficult job-related skills-generally benefits individuals by making them eligible toengage in well-paid occupations. Women’s role as child bearers, however, results in interruptionsin their participation in the job market (as compared with men’s) and thus reduces theiropportunities to acquire training for highly skilled work. In addition, the human capital theoryexplains why there was a high concentration of women workers in certain low-skill jobs, such asweaving, but not in others, such as combing or carding, by positing that because of their primaryresponsibility in child rearing women took occupations that could be carried out in the home.
There were, however, differences in pay scales that cannot be explained by the human capitaltheory. For example, male construction workers were paid significantly higher wage than femaletaffeta weavers. The wage difference between these two low-skill occupations stems from thesegregation of labor by gender: because a limited number of occupations were open to women,there was a large supply of workers in their fields, and this “overcrowding” resulted in womenreceiving lower wages and men receiving higher wages.
选项
A、low-skill jobs performed by primarily by women employees
B、low-skill jobs that were not perfomed in the home
C、low-skill jobs performed by both male and female employees
D、high-skill jobs performed outside the home
E、high-skill jobs performed by both male and female employees
答案
B
解析
This question asks you to draw an inference about something that differentiates weaving from combing and carding. The best answer is B. First, the phrase “there was a high concentration of women workers in certain low-skill jobs, such as weaving, but not in others, such as combing and carding” indicates that all three jobs in question were low-skill jobs. Second, the passage states that women tended to take occupations that could be carried out in the home; the fact that there was a high concentration of female weavers, but not of female combers and carders, thus suggests that weaving was performed in the home, but combing and carding were not. Choice A is not correct because the passage suggests that relatively small numbers of women did combing and carding; furthermore, even if combing and carding had been performed mainly by women, this fact would not distinguish those occupations from weaving. Choice C is incorrect because the passage mentions relative levels of concentration of women in the occupations of weaving, combing, and carding, suggesting that all three jobs were performed to some extent by men as well. Thus, combing and carding would not differ from weaving in this regard. Choices D and E can be eliminated. The phrase “there was a high concentration of women workers in certain low-skill jobs, such as weaving, but not in others, such as combing and carding” indicates that all three jobs in question were low-skill jobs. Thus any choice that characterizes combing and carding as high-skill jobs is incorrect.
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/JNtO777K
本试题收录于:
GMAT VERBAL题库GMAT分类
0
GMAT VERBAL
GMAT
相关试题推荐
Aseasonticket______theholdertomakeasmanyjourneysashewishedwithinthestatedperiodoftime.
Manyayoungpersontellsmehewantstobeawriter.Ialwaysencouragesuchpeople,butIalsoexplainthatthere’sabigdif
Concerningmoneyoranythingelse,conflictsbetweenhusbandandwifeusuallyreflectapowerstruggle.Conflictsbetweenparen
Ican______youthattheanimalsarewellcaredforinourzoo,soyouneedn’tworryaboutthem.
Buyingthesparepartsforyourcar,youshouldtrytogetthe______onesfromtheauthorizeddealer.
Withthepossibleexceptionofequalrights,perhapsthemostcontroversialissueacrosstheUnitedStatestodayisthedeathpe
Thepurposeofthistestistomeasurestudents’________tolearninsteadoftheirpresentachievements.
【T1】Whiletherearealmostasmanydefinitionsofhistoryastherearehistorians,modernpracticemostcloselyconformstoone
Thankstothemeansofmoderntransportationandcommunication,theworldisgettingsmaller.Thewholeworldcommunityappears
Babieswhoarebreast-fedmaybemorelikelytobesuccessfulinlife,anewstudypublishedTuesdaysuggests.Thestudyfollowe
随机试题
如果人体缺碘,就会发生甲状腺肿大,俗称“大脖子病”。过去我国缺碘入口达7亿多,从1994年起我国实行食盐加碘政策。推行加碘盐十多年后,大脖子病的发病率直线下降,但在部分地区,甲亢、甲状腺疾病却明显增多。有人认为,食盐加碘是导致国内部分地区甲状腺疾病增多的原
为了防止()现象发生,启动离心泵时必须先关闭泵的出口阀。
在教育群体中,群体成员或群体与群体之间协调作用最高水平的一种心理状态和行为是()
求。
A、化瘀止血B、收敛止血C、凉血止血D、温经止血E、补气止血炮姜的功效是
根据民事诉讼理论,下列关于第一审程序与第二审程序的表述,哪一选项是不正确的?()
在施工合同的履行中,如果建设单位拖欠工程款,经催告后在合理的期限内仍未支付,则施工企业可以主张( ),然后要求对方赔偿损失。
当前在我国分业监管体制下综合经营带来的挑战有()。
我记得曾在哪里见过她。
根据以下资料,回答下列问题。2012年1—11月份,全国民间固定资产投资201624亿元,同比名义增长25%,增速比1—10月份回落0.2个百分点。民间固定资产投资占固定资产投资的比重为61.8%,比1—10月份下降0.1个百分点。分地区看,东部地
最新回复
(
0
)