What Was One of the Main Tensions Experienced by Middle-Class

question 65

Multiple Choice

What was one of the main tensions experienced by middle-class women in Gilded Age America?

• A) Middle-class women were entering professions once exclusively held by men, such as doctors and lawyers, in record numbers; however, they were denied the proper schooling that would enable them to be successful in these fields.
• B) More middle-class women were gaining access to higher education, helping lead to their growing presence in the workforce, but social expectations still kept many tied to the home or steered toward so-called home economics-type courses.
• C) Middle-class women had advanced greatly in terms of the breadth of the roles they played in society, partly because of their responsibilities during the Civil War, so that by the time the Gilded Age arrived, the sole issue was women's voting rights.
• D) Due to the lack of women's colleges or co-ed institutions, few middle-class women entered the workforce, which contributed to the great struggle most middle-class families at the time faced in being able to afford their lifestyles.
• E) Because of the state of the economy following the Civil War, most middle-class women were forced to work exclusively outside the home; however, the women's movement of the time resisted this as it prized the domestic sphere.

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Definitions:

Fixed-Ratio

A reinforcement schedule where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred.

Fixed-Interval

A reinforcement schedule in which the first reaction is reinforced after a predetermined period, resulting in a patterned series of responses.

Variable-Interval

A schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded after an unpredictable amount of time has passed.

Fixed-Ratio

In the context of reinforcement learning, it describes a schedule where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred, leading to a high, steady rate of responding.