Question 1

How have the patterns of women's work in the home and the workplace changed over time in the United States? What have these changes meant sociologically?

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Historical trends have shown that while ...

Question 2

What are time use studies? Describe one study from this chapter and what it has taught us about work and family life.

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Time use studies measure how people use ...

Question 3

When asked why 25-year-old Joy does more housework than her 28-year-old husband, Jim, Joy said that Jim works longer hours and she therefore doesn't mind doing some extra work around the house. Joy's explanation is an example of what phenomenon?

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A)   Women are usually submissive to their husbands.
B)   Spouses commonly rationalize unequal divisions of labor.
C)   Women tend to have low self-esteem.
D)   Younger couples tend to have a more uneven division of labor.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 4

In what order did women historically enter the workplace?

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A)   first women under 20 years old, then women between 20 and 40 years old, then women over 40 years old
B)   first single women, then married women without children, and eventually most married women with young children
C)   first married women who had no siblings, then women with one sibling, then women with two or more siblings
D)   first women in the northeastern United States, then women in the southern United States, then women in the midwestern United StatesE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

When the welfare system was reformed in 1996, policymakers abandoned the assumption that

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A)   poor women are not fit to care for their own children.
B)   men, not the state, should care for single women.
C)   no single mothers should have to work if they do not want to.
D)   the government would provide income support instead of full-time work.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 6

One solution to work-family conflict that people choose reluctantly is

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A)   reducing the role of family in their lives.
B)   taking higher-status jobs that allow for more leisure time.
C)   going back to school to get better-paying jobs.
D)   taking children out of extracurricular activities.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

What was the Wages for Housework campaign? What did the campaign try to achieve? Why do you think this campaign was sociologically significant?

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Question 8

The gender division of labor means that

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A)   women do the lion's share of housework and care work, and they are concentrated in certain paid occupational areas.
B)   men and women tend to split labor equally, whether at home or at work.
C)   women are naturally more capable of performing housework and care work, and they enter those occupations in which they are naturally more talented.
D)   women have learned to perform tasks traditionally done by men in the workplace, but they continue to perform most housework and care work.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 9

The work to maintain a household's function is

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A)   housework.
B)   market work.
C)   care work.
D)   women's work.E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 10

In the United States, care work is much more____ than it is in many other countries, which tend to have more ______solutions.

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A)   family-based; bureaucratic
B)   public; private
C)   affordable; expensive
D)   market-based; state-basedE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

In the last half-century or so, the main story in the realm of work and family has been

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A)   women opting out of paid work to stay at home with their children.
B)   the growth of the organized labor movement.
C)   men's loss of power both at work and at home.
D)   the growth of market work in the system of care.E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 12

The most common reason for families to adopt an at-home father arrangement is that

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A)   the couple is homosexual.
B)   the woman can make money more easily.
C)   the father has lost his job or is unable to work.
D)   studies have proven that children develop better with a stay-at-home father.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 13

One decision that modern families must face is how to divide the housework and care work within the family. This is often a contentious issue for couples, showing that

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A)   most couples establish clear communication about who performs which task.
B)   it is not really "families" but rather individuals within them that make decisions.
C)   both men and women are taking on more and more care work.
D)   men and women tend to split care work evenly.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 14

As sociologist Judith Lorber puts it, "Workplace pressures are thought to be unchangeable, so the burden of innovation falls on the ______."

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A)   state
B)   family
C)   individual
D)   marketE) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 15

How does the United States compare to other countries in terms of providing state-supported family and medical leave?

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In the United States, the 1993 Family an...

Question 16

The term system of care is used to describe what?

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A)   the central coordinating system for completing housework
B)   how a society accomplishes the necessary care work and housework
C)   the master plan that families create in order to accomplish all of their care work
D)   state-implemented Social Security and elder-care programsE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 17

Socialization means that the lessons learned in childhood are applied to the situations in which people find themselves as adults. This means that boys who grow up with an employed mother

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A)   hire someone to clean their homes for them when they grow up.
B)   have their mothers do their housework their entire lives.
C)   do more housework when they grow up.
D)   do less housework when they grow up.E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 18

Families that practice what Francine Deutsch calls "equally shared parenting" have succeeded best by

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A)   focusing on the early childbearing years, when the division of labor tends to be the most strongly marked by gender.
B)   having stay-at-home mothers develop their own hobbies so they don't feel inferior to husbands with full-time jobs.
C)   letting one parent focus attention on one child or set of children while another parent focuses attention on another child or set of children.
D)   outsourcing as much of the parenting responsibilities as possible so as to create more free time for parents.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 19

Care work and housework are increasingly performed as what?

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A)   unpaid work
B)   overpaid work
C)   market work
D)   illegal workE) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 20

What concept does sociologist Judith Lorber propose as a way to gradually erase gender differences in the responsibilities of men and women?

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A)   Protestant family ethic
B)   degendering families
C)   divorce
D)   marriage counselingE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Exam 11: Work and Families

Socialization means that the lessons learned in childhood are applied to the situations in which people find themselves as adults. This means that boys who grow up with an employed mother

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What concept does sociologist Judith Lorber propose as a way to gradually erase gender differences in the responsibilities of men and women?

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In the United States, care work is much more____ than it is in many other countries, which tend to have more ______solutions.

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What are time use studies? Describe one study from this chapter and what it has taught us about work and family life.

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In what order did women historically enter the workplace?

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One decision that modern families must face is how to divide the housework and care work within the family. This is often a contentious issue for couples, showing that

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The most common reason for families to adopt an at-home father arrangement is that

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One solution to work-family conflict that people choose reluctantly is

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How does the United States compare to other countries in terms of providing state-supported family and medical leave?

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How have the patterns of women's work in the home and the workplace changed over time in the United States? What have these changes meant sociologically?

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The term system of care is used to describe what?

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The work to maintain a household's function is

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When asked why 25-year-old Joy does more housework than her 28-year-old husband, Jim, Joy said that Jim works longer hours and she therefore doesn't mind doing some extra work around the house. Joy's explanation is an example of what phenomenon?

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As sociologist Judith Lorber puts it, "Workplace pressures are thought to be unchangeable, so the burden of innovation falls on the ______."

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When the welfare system was reformed in 1996, policymakers abandoned the assumption that

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The gender division of labor means that

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Care work and housework are increasingly performed as what?

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Families that practice what Francine Deutsch calls "equally shared parenting" have succeeded best by

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In the last half-century or so, the main story in the realm of work and family has been

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What was the Wages for Housework campaign? What did the campaign try to achieve? Why do you think this campaign was sociologically significant?

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