One Explanation for the Increased Participation of Married Women in the U.S.labor

question 170

Multiple Choice

One explanation for the increased participation of married women in the U.S.labor force is that

• A)fewer women are being trained for household work by the public school system
• B)rapid growth in the service sector has provided additional job opportunities for women
• C)the cost of professional day care has increased
• D)couples are having more children
• E)husbands earn more today than they did previously

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Definitions:

Cognitively Demanding

Requiring significant mental effort and intellectual engagement to understand or accomplish.

Spillover Hypothesis

Hypothesis that there is a carryover of cognitive gains from work to leisure that explains the positive relationship between activities in the quality of intellectual functioning.

Moral Thought

The process of thinking about, and making judgments regarding, the rightness or wrongness of human actions.

Kohlberg

A theorist known for his work in the development of moral reasoning, proposing stages through which individuals progress as they mature.