Sexual harassment is an example of
A. excessive sexuality in the workplace.
B. sex-based discrimination in the workplace.
C. an attempt to reduce offensive remarks in the workplace.
D. none of these.
Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA
A. employers must provide workers a joint and survivor option.
B. survivor coverage can only be waived with a wifes (or dependents) knowing consent.
C. pension payments are lower for workers with survivor coverage.
D. all of these.
Flexible spending accounts
A. provide child care subsidies for low-income, working women.
B. allow employees to pay their child care expenses with pre-tax dollars.
C. offer tax benefits to employers who establish on-site child care.
D. all of these.
Generally during recessions we see
A. wages fall faster than the Gross Domestic Product.
B. unemployment rises more slowly than other economic indicators.
C. the decline in the Gross Domestic Product outstrips unemployment.
D. all of these.
Proponents of a human capital explanation of the gender wage gap argue
A. women are less committed to their work.
B. women receive less education than men.
C. women have interrupted work histories.
D. all of these.
The Family and Medical Leave Act was signed by
A. President Ronald Reagan.
B. President George H. Bush.
C. President Bill Clinton.
D. President George W. Bush
The first issue addressed by the National Organization for Women was
A. womens access to abortion.
B. sex-classified help-wanted advertisements.
C. equal pay for equal work.
D. comparable worth.
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
A. employers who receive federal contracts may not discriminate on the basis of sex.
B. no employer may discriminate on the basis of sex.
C. public agencies are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of sex.
D. employers with 50 or more employees cannot discriminate on the basis of sex.
Protective labor laws during the post-WWI era
A. limited the number of hours women could work.
B. restricted the mingling of women and men in the workplace.
C. controlled the wages that could be paid to women.
D. both A and C.
The Keating-Owen Bill was
A. approved by Congress in 1916.
B. signed by President Woodrow Wilson.
C. the nations first child labor bill.
D. all of these.
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