Your textbook discusses the research on women and the welfare system in the United States. This research shows that
a. women are likely to go on welfare so that they can receive generous welfare benefits.
b. the welfare program encourages women to seek a college education.
c. current welfare legislation forces women to take low-paying jobs rather than receive training for higher-paying jobs.
d. current welfare legislation provides adequate child-care benefits so that women with children can work outside the home.
Question 2Research on the work patterns of immigrant women shows that
a. compared to US-born European Americans, Latin American women who come to the United States are more likely to have completed four years of college.
b. when immigrants come to North America, they are typically given full credit for their prior education and training.
c. Asian immigrants who come to Canada are more likely than other Canadian residents to have some university experience.
d. in Canada, immigrant women with some university experience typically receive the same salaries as Canadian-born women.
Question 3Suppose that a friend of yours says, Of course immigrant women have an easy life.. Your best response would be:
a. You are correct, because they come to North America, and then they take thousands of good jobs away from the people who are born here..
b. You are correct, because the women who have graduate degrees get full credit for all their work experience in their other country, when they are applying for prestigious jobs in North America..
c. You are incorrect, because only a small percentage of them even look for work..
d. You are incorrect, because most of them get jobs that don't pay very well..
Question 4Which of the following statements best describes the factors that influence women's employment patterns?
a. Ethnicity is not strongly related to employment.
b. Surprisingly, women's educational background has little influence on their likelihood of being employed.
c. White women are more likely than women of color to be employed, no matter what their level of education.
d. Latina women have the highest rate of employment, compared to other ethnic groups.
Question 5Which of the following statements about employed women is correct?
a. The amount of education a woman has had is one of the best predictors of whether she works outside the home.
b. Unlike professions such as law or engineering, the profession of medicine has always welcomed women.
c. Presently, fewer than 20 of first-year medical students are female.
d. Medicine is the only high-prestige profession in which the percentage of females has increased significantly in recent years.
Question 6According to the introduction to the chapter on women and work,
a. more than half of North American women over the age of 16 are currently employed.
b. women are especially likely to receive negative evaluations when they are in traditionally feminine occupations, such as elementary school teaching.
c. employment rates are higher for women in Northern Africa and Central America than for women in North America.
d. because mothers in the United States feel guilty about child care, their rate of employment has actually dropped during the past decade.
Question 7Why do competent women find themselves in a double bind with respect to persuasion?
a. A situation that they perceive as winning might be perceived as losing by other people.
b. Men are more likely to see them as a sex objects, whereas women are more likely to see them as a source of competition.
c. Women want men to be gentle, but men want them to be forceful.
d. If they act in a competent mannertherefore living up to their own standardsthey may not persuade men.CHAPTER 7Women and Work
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