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QUESTION 1 1. According to Ruth Coniff's article entitled "Women Losing Ground," fewer women are working because women are choosing, with greater frequency, to opt out of the workforce and become stay-at-home moms. True False 3 points QUESTION 2 1. Ruth Conniff identifies which of the following factors as responsible for detering women, especially mothers, from entering the workforce or remaining in the workforce after childbirth? A. inflexible scheduling requirements B. job discrimination C. lack of on-site childcare D. lack of parental leave and sick leave E. sexist expectations that women, not men, will leave the workforce to care for children F. All of the above G. A-D 3 points QUESTION 3 1. In her article entitled "Lilly's Big Day," Gail Collins suggests that the women at the heart of major Supreme Court cases and landmark pieces of legislation, like Lilly Ledbetter of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, changed the world in addition to benefitting personally from the laws they helped to enact. True False 3 points QUESTION 4 1. According to the essay entitled "The Wage Gap and Its Costs," the wage gap affects all women equally, resulting in women between the ages of 26 and 59 getting paid abot 38% of what men earn. True False 3 points QUESTION 5 1. In his Op-Ed piece entitled "The Sons Also Rise," Paul Krugman argues that while success in America has always been strongly related to being born to well-connected, affluent parents (rather than to hard work and determination), the heritability of status is likely to increase in the future. He cites which of the following reasons as support for this claim: A. Those at the top today, such as C.E.O.'s, have more wealth and power than C.E.O.'s of the past, ergo more to bequeath on their children than C.E.O's of the past. B. The repeal of the estate tax, which will enable more and more wealth to be passed on to the next generation rather than earned afresh. C. The unequal ability of parents to provide a good education for their children. D. All of the above. 3 points QUESTION 6 1. Kim Phillips-Fein's essay entitled "The Education of Jessica Rivera" suggests that welfare reform policies that require welfare recipients to work for benefits undermine the ability of those recipients to finish college and, ironically, thereby make it more difficult for such people to decrease their dependency on welfare. True False 3 points QUESTION 7 1. According to the Education Trust study mentioned by Bob Feldman in his article "'Savage Inequalities' Revisited," between 1997 and 2000 the gap between the amount of money spent per student in the poorest 25% of school districts and the richest 25% of school districts narrowed by only $100 in 9 states. True False 3 points QUESTION 8 1. Per Alejandro Reuss' article entitled "Cause of Death: Inequality," those between ages 25 and 64 without a high school diploma have an age-adjusted mortality rate that is slightly less than twice that or people with at least some college education. True False 3 points QUESTION 9 1. According to Alejandro Portes' article entitled "Immigration's Aftermath," America's economy makes of use of illegal immigration in ways that are inattentive to the predictable suffering that the children of those immigrants will endure. True False
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