Why did the proportion of women working as sales clerks increase in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
a. Sales jobs were attractive to women because that offered better working conditions than factory jobs.
b. Managers in department stores considered female cashiers to be much more trustworthy that male cashiers.
c. Sales jobs demanded many different skills that women usually possessed.
d. Sales jobs usually led to the managerial positions that most working women desired.
a
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What body or government authorized military intervention on the Korean peninsula on behalf of the South Koreans?
A. China B. the UN C. the Soviet Union D. the United States
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A) extension of the right to vote to women B) protection of civil rights and liberties C) expansion of the French Empire in Asia D) curtailment of international trade
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c. the flowering of Mexican American culture. d. rising hostility against them. e. all of these choices.