Which of the Following Was the Primary Purpose for Enactment

question 36

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was the primary purpose for enactment of the Equal Pay Act?

• A) To eliminate situations in which women, working alongside men or replacing men, would be paid lower wages for doing substantially the same job.
• B) To eliminate situations in which less qualified men were hired as opposed to better qualified women.
• C) To eliminate situations in which women and men were being paid less than deserved for certain types of work.
• D) To eliminate situations in which women, working alongside men or replacing men, would be paid lower wages for doing substantially the same job; to eliminate situations in which less qualified men were hired as opposed to better qualified women; and to eliminate situations in which women and men were being paid less than deserved for certain types of work.
• E) To eliminate situations in which women, working alongside men or replacing men, would be paid lower wages for doing substantially the same job; to eliminate situations in which less qualified men were hired as opposed to better qualified women; but not to eliminate situations in which women and men were being paid less than deserved for certain types of work.

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Definitions:

MP

Stands for "Member of Parliament," but in a logical context, it refers to a deductive pattern of reasoning where a specific conclusion is inferred from a general rule and a specific case.

Conj

An abbreviation for "Conjunction," a logical operator that connects two conditions or propositions where both must be true.

Inference Forms

Patterns of reasoning where specific statements lead logically to a conclusion.

MP

In logic, MP refers to Modus Ponens, a form of argument that if a conditional statement ('If P then Q') is accepted, and P is affirmed, then Q must also be affirmed.