How Does Credentialism Reproduce Inequality

question 46

Multiple Choice

How does credentialism reproduce inequality?

• A) It discourages women to start college in order to meet and marry men who are college students without completing their own degrees.
• B) It encourages people to earn only the college credits seen as valuable by employers seeking a specific skill set rather than devoting themselves to the study of topics that might not be as clearly related to a job.
• C) It keeps wages low in employment sectors dominated by women, such as teaching, and high in those dominated men, such as computer technology.
• D) As less wealthy people finally achieve a college education, those who are more wealthy are earning graduate degrees, which are now required by jobs that previously required lower levels of education.

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