Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The gender wage gap exists even when women and men have comparable qualifications.
2. Women experience the glass escalator when they have made it to managerial positions in the
business world, yet are still far less likely than men to have jobs that involve exercising authority over people and resources.
3. The fact that 97% of preschool and kindergarten teachers are female is an example of
occupational sex segregation.
4. Protective labor legislation prohibited women from working in places that sold alcoholic
beverages as it might corrupt their morality.
5. In Mexico’s maquiladoras, assembly plants, men between the ages of 16 and 24 make up 80–90% of the labor force.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE
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