Which of the Following Is a Problem with Time Availability

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a problem with time availability theory's explanation of divisions of household labor?

• A) It doesn't explain the gender pay gap.
• B) It doesn't explain why employed women do more than half of the housework even when their male partners are unemployed.
• C) It doesn't explain differences in why women succeed in education more than men.
• D) It contradicts findings that stereotype threat affects women's performance outside of the house.

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Definitions:

Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

Referring to the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s, noted for its early settlement, tobacco cultivation, and indentured servant labor system.

Family Planning

A strategy for couples and individuals to decide when and how many children to have, often involving methods of birth control and fertility treatments.

Indentured Servant

A worker bound by a contract to serve an employer for a specific period of time, typically in exchange for the cost of passage to a new country.

Planter

A landowner who operates a plantation, especially in the historical context of the agricultural economies in the Southern United States, where cash crops like cotton and tobacco were prominent.