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Each suburban housewife, wrote Betty Friedan in 1963, struggles with a single question as she makes the beds, shops for grocerie
Each suburban housewife, wrote Betty Friedan in 1963, struggles with a single question as she makes the beds, shops for grocerie
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2022-03-27
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Each suburban housewife, wrote Betty Friedan in 1963, struggles with a single question as she makes the beds, shops for groceries, drives children to school and lies beside her husband at night; "Is this all?" A few years after her ground-breaking book The Feminine Mystique was published, the Census Bureau began collecting data on the proportion of mothers who opt to stay at home. Over the subsequent decades the statistics answered Friedan’s question with a heartfelt no.
In 1967 the share of mothers who did not work outside the home stood at 49%; by the turn of the millennium it had dropped to just 23%. Many thought this number would continue to fall as women sought to " have it all". Instead, the proportion of stay-at-home mothers has been rising steadily for the past 15 years, according to new data gathered by the Pew Research Centre.
This partly reflects demographic change. Immigrants, a rising share of the relevant generation, are more likely to be stay-at-home mums than women born in America. There is an economic component to the change, too; at the end of the 1990s, when mothers staying at home were at their rarest, the economy was creating so many jobs that most people who wanted work could find it. Now more report that they are unable to do so, or are studying in the hope of finding work later. But there is also an element of choice: a quarter of stay-at-home mothers have college degrees.
Taken as a whole, the group includes mothers at both ends of the social scale. Some are highly educated bankers’ wives who choose not to work because they don’t need the money and would rather spend their time hothousing their kids so that they may one day get into Harvard. Others are poorer but calculate that, after paying for child care, the money they make by sweeping floors or serving burgers does not justify the time away from their little ones.
The first group is fairly small. Pew estimates that there are 370,000 highly educated and affluent stay-at-home mothers (defined as married mothers with children under 18 who have at least a master’s degree and family income in excess of $75 ,000) . That is 5% of all stay-at-home mothers with working husbands. One third of stay-at-home mothers are single or cohabiting, and on average they are poorer than the rest.
Now there are more stay-at-home mothers mainly because of________.
选项
A、their laziness and lack of ambition
B、immigration and employment difficulty
C、their own choice and their husbands’ wish
D、immigration and low educational background
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干关键词stay-at-home mothers和出题顺序定位到第三段第二句Immigrants,a rising share of the relevant generation,are more likely to be stay-at-home mums than women born in America,由该句可以判断:移民是家庭主妇变多的原因之一。第二个因素来自第三、四句,总结起来是因为就业市场发生变化,就业没有以前容易了,故选项B项正确。D项中虽然也有immigration“移民”,但其后的low educational background “低教育背景”与原文第三段最后一句a quarter of stay-at-home mothers have college degrees “四分之一的家庭主妇拥有大学学历”不符,故排除。
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