How Did Middle-Class Wives and Mothers Seek to Justify Their

question 56

Multiple Choice

How did middle-class wives and mothers seek to justify their work outside the home in the 1950s?

• A) They insisted that housekeepers and nannies could perform their domestic duties just as effectively.
• B) Middle-class women argued that it was unfair for their husbands to bear all the financial responsibilities.
• C) They explained their work in family-oriented terms and maintained their domestic responsibilities.
• D) Working women insisted that they could not be fully human unless they had a chance to earn money.

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Definitions:

Internal Validity

The extent to which a study can prove that a cause-and-effect relationship exists between the tested variables, excluding the influence of external factors.

Nonmonotonic Relationship

A relationship between two variables where the direction of the effect changes over the range of the variable, meaning it can increase then decrease, or vice-versa.

Independent Variables

The factors that are manipulated or varied by researchers in an experiment to determine their effect on the dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

In experimental research, the variable that is being tested and measured, expected to change as a result of manipulations to the independent variable.