The Assumption That Careers Must Follow Linear,full-Time Patterns

question 2

Multiple Choice

The assumption that careers must follow linear,full-time patterns

• A) is based on work-patterns of previous eras that assumed a typical employee was a male worker with a stay-at-home wife.
• B) leads many women to choose to forego having families.
• C) negatively affects both men's and women's career trajectories.
• D) correctly assumes that workers are most productive and successful when they remain invested in and committed to a job for a long period of time and without interruption.
• E) has been rejected by most contemporary major corporations.

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