Question 1

"Sequencing" life events is a coping strategy often used by women to minimize the conflicting demands of work and family roles.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is the only national legislation concerned with family leave following the birth of a child.This legislation provides which of the following:

Accepted Answer

A)  Employers of 50 or more persons must provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave. 
B)  Employers of 50 or more persons must provide 12 weeks of paid leave. 
C)  All employers must provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave. 
D)  All employers must provide 12 weeks of paid leave.

Question 3

Which of the following is not true of teen employment?

Accepted Answer

A)  The rate of employment is higher among African-Americans than Whites. 
B)  The rate of employment is higher among Whites than Hispanics. 
C)  The employment rate is higher among higher-income than lower-income teens. 
D)  Low-income teens tend to compete for jobs with low-income adults.

Question 4

Which of the following describes children's household labor in dual-earner families?

Accepted Answer

A)  These children do around double the housework of those in single-earner families. 
B)  Children have limited responsibility for household tasks. 
C)  Middle-class children earn their spending money by doing assigned family work. 
D)  none of the above

Question 5

According to the text,dual-earner families

Accepted Answer

A)  outnumber families in which only the husband is employed two to one. 
B)  are likely to have no pre-school age children. 
C)  comprise less than 10% of U.S. families. 
D)  usually divide household labor evenly between spouses.

Question 6

According to your textbook,the boundaries between family and work have

Accepted Answer

A)  become less and less clear. 
B)  not changed in recent decades. 
C)  become sharper and sharper.

Question 7

Research shows that family relationships in the working class are negatively affected by poor working conditions and job insecurity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

To what are the authors referring when they discuss a "two-tiered" family benefits structure?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women and men have different family benefits. 
B)  Women in high level jobs have better family benefits than women in low-wage jobs. 
C)  Older women have better family benefits than younger women. 
D)  Paternity leave is becoming widespread.

Question 9

Men's work patterns in the contemporary United States have been most altered by

Accepted Answer

A)  increasing pressure to combine work and family roles. 
B)  feminism. 
C)  macro level change that has redistributed jobs. 
D)  paternity leave.

Question 10

Research on adolescent employment supports all except which of the following statements?

Accepted Answer

A)  Adolescent employment has been encouraged by the creations of "bad" jobs in the service sector. 
B)  Teens contribute their earnings to the family to improve the household's financial condition. 
C)  Employment often interferes with school work. 
D)  Teen employment is associated with higher rates of drug and alcohol use.

Question 11

Outline the range of family-supportive policies implemented by U.S.employers.How adequate are these supports in meeting family needs?

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

Research finds that which of the following is a major reason women increasingly work in the paid labor force?

Accepted Answer

A)  They find it personally fulfilling. 
B)  They are concerned about their long-term income. 
C)  They are concerned about Social Security and employer benefits. 
D)  all of the above

Question 13

All of the following are documented in the text as coping strategies of working families except

Accepted Answer

A)  sequencing life events. 
B)  split-shift parenting. 
C)  an even split of housework between men and women. 
D)  reducing standards for domestic work.

Question 14

In the military,where racial discrimination is less prominent than in other institutions,African Americans are

Accepted Answer

A)  less likely to divorce than outside the military. 
B)  more likely to be unmarried than outside the military. 
C)  more likely to divorce than outside the military. 
D)  a smaller percentage than they are in the population at large.

Question 15

The work that women do to sustain communication with their mates has been referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  kin work. 
B)  interaction work. 
C)  social production. 
D)  volunteer labor.

Question 16

Ciabattari's research shows that low-income single mothers

Accepted Answer

A)  tend to experience high levels of work-family conflict. 
B)  are more likely to leave paid employment. 
C)  tend to have little stability in their employment history. 
D)  all of the above 
E)  none of the above

Question 17

Over 50% of which group of U.S.women is in the labor force?

Accepted Answer

A)  White 
B)  African American 
C)  Latina 
D)  all of the above

Question 18

Less than ten percent of U.S.families have a breadwinner husband and a homemaker wife.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Since 1970,the earnings of men without a college education have

Accepted Answer

A)  risen. 
B)  fallen. 
C)  increased more than women's. 
D)  stayed the same.

Question 20

The dominant work-family pattern in the United States is

Accepted Answer

A)  dual-worker families. 
B)  single earner two-parent families. 
C)  employed single-parent families. 
D)  unemployed single-parent families.

Exam 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family

"Sequencing" life events is a coping strategy often used by women to minimize the conflicting demands of work and family roles.

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is the only national legislation concerned with family leave following the birth of a child.This legislation provides which of the following:

Which of the following is not true of teen employment?

Which of the following describes children's household labor in dual-earner families?

According to the text,dual-earner families

According to your textbook,the boundaries between family and work have

Research shows that family relationships in the working class are negatively affected by poor working conditions and job insecurity.

To what are the authors referring when they discuss a "two-tiered" family benefits structure?

Men's work patterns in the contemporary United States have been most altered by

Research on adolescent employment supports all except which of the following statements?

Outline the range of family-supportive policies implemented by U.S.employers.How adequate are these supports in meeting family needs?

Research finds that which of the following is a major reason women increasingly work in the paid labor force?

All of the following are documented in the text as coping strategies of working families except

In the military,where racial discrimination is less prominent than in other institutions,African Americans are

The work that women do to sustain communication with their mates has been referred to as

Ciabattari's research shows that low-income single mothers

Over 50% of which group of U.S.women is in the labor force?

Less than ten percent of U.S.families have a breadwinner husband and a homemaker wife.

Since 1970,the earnings of men without a college education have

The dominant work-family pattern in the United States is