True/False Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Cherlin asserts that most husbands today still maintain power over their wives on the basis of their superior earnings and authority on the basis of social beliefs.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Work that is done for wages outside the home is referred to as having use value, not exchange value.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	The breadwinner-homemaker family is called "traditional" because it was the dominant type of family form in existence for most of the last 200 years in Western societies.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	A study of workers in Mexico City showed that married women were more likely than married men to hold jobs in the informal sector of the economy.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	Since the mid-1990s, women's wages have risen faster than men's and they are now on par with men's wages.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	There are pronounced social class differences between the middle class and the working class in the proportion of housework done by husbands.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	Studies support the finding that spillover is more likely to occur among women than among men.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Large firms in the United States offer more policies to help workers balance their work and family lives than small firms, thus helping middle-class workers more than the working class or the poor.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	The federal parental leave policy signed by President Clinton in 1993 offers workers 12 weeks leave at full pay at the birth of a baby.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Surveys of married men and women in dual-earner couples showed that husbands reported more equality of childcare responsibilities than wives.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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