Gender-Role Stereotyping Is Best Defined as the Tendency to ________

question 68

Multiple Choice

Gender-role stereotyping is best defined as the tendency to ________.

• A) associate women with certain jobs
• B) appoint women to high-profile positions
• C) build a workforce with primarily one gender
• D) pay women and men differently for the same job

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Definitions:

MRP = MRC Rule

The principle that to maximize profit (or minimize losses), a firm should employ the quantity of a resource at which its marginal revenue product (MRP) is equal to its marginal resource cost (MRC), the latter being the wage rate in a purely competitive labor market.

Profit-maximizing Firm

A company that adjusts its production and sales levels to achieve the highest possible profit based on its cost structure and market price.

MRP = MRC

An equality suggesting that the marginal revenue product (additional revenue from one more unit of an input) equals the marginal resource cost (cost of acquiring one additional unit of the input).

Resource Price

The cost associated with acquiring resources needed for production, such as labor, land, and capital.