Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. In today's workplaces, the further up the pay scale and the higher the education level, the wider the earnings gap becomes between men and women. 
2. The glass ceiling is a concept that applies to both minorities and women. 
3. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires organizations to make all requested accommodations for an individual's disabilities. 
4. Declining literacy is a problem in the American workforce. 


1. TRUE
Traditionally, women have earned roughly the same pay as men only in jobs paying $25,000-$30,000 a year. The further up the pay scale and the higher the education level, the wider the earnings gap.
2. TRUE
The glass ceiling is the metaphor for an invisible barrier preventing women and minorities from being promoted to top executive jobs.
3. FALSE
Since 1992 we have had the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against the disabled and requires organizations only to reasonably accommodate an individual's disabilities.
4. TRUE
In the United States, literacy has dropped at every level of education. If, as has been alleged, more than two-thirds of the American workforce reads below ninth-grade level, that is a real problem for employers, because about 70% of the on-the-job reading materials are written at or above that level.

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