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6 Gender, Work, and the Economy Online Quiz Questions

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20 questions

True or false

1 point

True or false: The distinction between paid and unpaid work is the same as the distinction between productive and unproductive activity.

A
True
B
False

Choose one

1 point

A study finds that women are more represented in health care and education, while men are more represented in construction and engineering. Which concept best describes this pattern?

A
Women and men are concentrated in different kinds of occupations.
B
Women and men have unequal access to senior positions within the same organization.
C
Workers have different levels of job security because of their contract terms.
D
Employees receive different benefits depending on their hours.

Fill in the blank

1 point

If unpaid care responsibilities leave someone with less time for paid hours, overtime, travel, or training, this can affect earnings and .

Written response

1 point

What term describes the unequal distribution of groups across jobs or fields?

True or false

1 point

True or false: A gender pay gap figure, by itself, shows whether women and men receive unequal pay for the same work.

A
True
B
False

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1 point

Within a profession, workers of one gender are less likely to reach senior, higher-paid roles than workers of another gender. Which concept best describes this pattern?

A
Employees of different genders work in different industries.
B
Women are more represented in one occupation, while men are more represented in another.
C
Within one occupation, workers of one gender have less access to senior, higher-paid positions.
D
Paid work and unpaid household work are both present in the economy.

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1 point

Which factors can contribute to occupational segregation? Select all that apply.

A
Differences in access to education and training
B
Individual preferences as the only explanation
C
Hiring and promotion practices
D
Workplace cultures and social expectations

Fill in the blank

1 point

Industrialization expanded wage employment .

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1 point

Which description best fits informal and precarious work as discussed in the material?

A
Work performed only in a household without payment
B
Work with limited security, protections, or predictable income
C
Work that takes place exclusively on digital platforms
D
Work in which employees have no caregiving responsibilities

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1 point

Which are ways that care responsibilities can connect household arrangements to labor-market outcomes? Select all that apply.

A
Less time for paid hours or overtime
B
Reduced time for travel or training
C
Automatic removal of all barriers to promotion
D
Employer assumptions about care responsibilities that reinforce unequal treatment

Written response

1 point

Which theoretical approach connects paid production with the unpaid work that maintains households and workers?

Open ended

1 point

A worker takes on a larger share of unpaid family care and consequently has less time for overtime and training. Explain two ways this household arrangement could affect the worker’s labor-market outcomes: one effect on time, earnings, or career progression, and one way employer assumptions about caregiving might contribute to inequality.

True or false

1 point

True or false: Globalization and migration have linked care and other service work across borders.

A
True
B
False

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1 point

Which statement best describes a human-capital approach to gendered patterns in work?

A
They examine only how employers discriminate in promotion decisions.
B
They connect paid production to the unpaid work that maintains households.
C
They examine how education, training, experience, and work interruptions relate to earnings and job placement.
D
They focus on how gender interacts with race, class, migration, and disability.

Written response

1 point

What sociological term describes the unequal distribution of social groups across jobs or fields? Enter the term.

Choose one

1 point

A report finds an earnings difference between women and men. Which conclusion is justified by the gender pay gap measure alone?

A
It directly measures unequal pay between people doing the same work.
B
It summarizes earnings differences between groups and does not, on its own, establish unequal pay for the same work.
C
It measures only differences in access to senior positions.
D
It establishes that discrimination caused every observed earnings difference.

Choose one

1 point

A hospital employs women and men in the same profession, but men are more likely to hold its senior, higher-paid positions. Which pattern does this example illustrate?

A
Women and men are concentrated in different occupations.
B
Workers in an occupation have different access to training.
C
Within one profession, men are more likely than women to reach senior leadership roles.
D
A company hires workers on temporary contracts.

Choose one

1 point

Which statement best describes a human-capital approach to gendered patterns in work?

A
Human-capital approach: examines how education, training, experience, and work interruptions relate to earnings and job placement, but cannot by itself explain how access to opportunities is shaped.
B
Labor-market segmentation and discrimination approach: focuses on how employers, hiring systems, occupational divisions, and workplace rules can channel workers into different jobs or reward comparable work differently.
C
Feminist political economy and social-reproduction approach: connects paid production to unpaid work that maintains households and workers, asking who performs this work and how its costs and rewards are distributed.
D
Intersectional approach: examines how gender interacts with race, class, migration, disability, and other social positions to shape opportunities and constraints.

Written response

1 point

What approach examines how gender interacts with race, class, migration, disability, and other social positions? Enter the name of the approach in the singular.

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1 point

An employee takes on a larger share of family care and has less time for training. The employer also assumes that the employee will be less available for advancement because of those responsibilities. Which explanation best connects the household and workplace effects?

A
Care responsibilities matter only within families and cannot affect labor-market outcomes.
B
Care responsibilities can limit time for paid work or training, while employer assumptions about who provides care can reinforce unequal treatment.
C
Care responsibilities affect earnings only when the care itself is paid.
D
Employers' assumptions about care eliminate differences in workers' access to advancement.