In Which of the Following Couples Is the Gender Gap

question 12

Multiple Choice

In which of the following couples is the gender gap in domestic labour likely to be the smallest?

• A) a male professor and his high-school-educated wife who stays at home
• B) a female professor and her computer-programmer husband
• C) a high-school-educated female cab driver and her security guard husband
• D) a male auto mechanic and his stenographer wife

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Definitions:

Selection Bias

A distortion in a statistical analysis resulting from the method of collecting samples, where some members of the intended population are less likely to be included than others.

Natural Groups

Groups that exist in the real world as they are, without manipulation or creation for research purposes, such as ethnic or gender groups.

Two Groups

A research design involving comparison between two separate groups of participants to determine the effect of a variable.

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.