Since the First Pioneering Status Attainment Studies, Women Have Largely

question 14

Multiple Choice

Since the first pioneering status attainment studies, women have largely been omitted. Why is this so, and what kind of data has been lost?

• A) Women were considered dependent, and those who did have their own occupations were excluded from the data.
• B) There were few female head-of-households in the 1950s, so no pattern of study was established.
• C) Most women were low income earners or did housework.
• D) Researchers believed that male attributes were general enough to apply to women, too, as well as being smoother to track.

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