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Women might be on a more even footing at work, but at home their careers

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问题         Women might be on a more even footing at work, but at home their careers tend to take a backseat to their husband’s job, according to a US study.
        Researcher Youngjoo Cha, from Cornell University, found that working women with a husband who worked 50 hours or more a week found themselves still doing most of the housework and the care giving and were more likely to end up【C1】_________their jobs.
        An analysis of 8,484 professional workers and 17,648【C2】_________from dual-earner families showed that if women had a husband who worked 60 hours or more per week, it increased the woman’s【C3】_________of giving up her paid job by 42 percent. The possibility of resigning increased to 51 percent for professional women, and for professional mothers the possibility jumped to 112 percent.
        However, it did not【C4】_________affect a man’s possibility of resigning if his wife worked 60 hours or more per week. For professional men, both parents and non-parents, the effects of a wife working long hours were【C5】_________, according to the study.
        "As long work hours introduce【C6】_________between work and family into many dual-earner families, couples often resolve it in ways that【C7】_________ husbands’ careers," Cha, who used data from the US Census Bureau, said in a statement.
        "This effect is【C8】_________among workers in professional and managerial occupations, where the norm of overwork and the culture of intensive parenting tend to be strongest. The findings suggest that the【C9】_________of overwork may lead many dual-earner couples to return to a traditional separate spheres arrangement—【C10】_________men and homemaking women. "
A) breadwinning
B) conflict
C) confront
D) magnified
E) magnitude
F) negative
G) negligible
H) nonprofessionals
I) odds
J) prevalence
K) primarily
L) primitive
M) prioritize
N) quitting
O) significantly [br] 【C9】
选项
答案 J
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