How Has the Life Course Changed

question 22

Multiple Choice

How has the life course changed?

• A) it is less predictable today, in that most deaths occur in later life
• B) people can now expect to enjoy many years in which parents and adult children jointly survive
• C) women now play a much smaller role in the paid workforce
• D) women's lives have become much less fluid
• E) a gendered public/private sphere distinction, with men's life courses played out in the public sphere and women's in the private sphere

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