Which one of the following is one possible explanation of median income differences between men and women?
a. Female employees encounter a glass elevator.
b. Male employees encounter a glass ceiling.
c. Many women leave the workplace to care for children and elderly parents.
d. Employers over-invest in childbearing-age women only to see them leave the workforce.
c
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A) physical B) arminial C) shared legal D) congenial
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