Historically a Discrepancy Exists Between the Pay for Women and Men

question 113

Multiple Choice

Historically a discrepancy exists between the pay for women and men of equal qualifications. Which statement most accurately describes this inequality?

• A) Although the pay discrepancy between men and women used to be quite large, it is nonexistent today.
• B) Despite threats of legal action, women still make significantly less than men of equal background.
• C) So much has been done to correct this discrepancy that women, on average, earn more than men of equal qualifications.
• D) The discrepancy in pay has shifted back and forth the last three decades; that is, sometimes women are paid more and sometimes men are paid more.
• E) Women and men of equal qualifications have, for the past two decades, made approximately the same amount of money from similar occupations.

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Definitions:

Disjunction

A logical operation that forms a compound statement from two statements, true if at least one of the statements is true.

Mutually Exclusive

Two or more events that cannot occur at the same time.

Compatible

Two events are compatible if they could both occur.

Coin Flipped

A metaphorical expression used to describe an event that has an equal probability of occurring in one of two ways.