首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext]The wage gap is a statistical indicator often used as an index of
[originaltext]The wage gap is a statistical indicator often used as an index of
游客
2024-02-18
20
管理
问题
The wage gap is a statistical indicator often used as an index of the status of women’s earnings relative to men’s. It is also used to compare the earnings of other races and ethnicities to those of white males, a group generally not subject to race—or sex—based discrimination. The wage gap is expressed as a percentage ( e. g. , in 2003, women earned 76% as much as men) and is calculated by dividing the median annual earnings for women by the median annum earnings for men.
The Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, making it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who hold the same job and do the same work. At the time of the EPA’s passage, women earned just 58 cents for every dollar earned by men. By 2003, 40 years later, that rate had only increased to 76 cents, an improvement of less than half a penny a year. Minority women fare the worst. African-American women earn just 65 cents to every dollar earned by white men, and for Hispanic women that figure drops to merely 54 cents per dollar.
If working women earned the same as men (those who work the same number of hours; have the same education, age, and union status; and live in the same region of the country), their annual family incomes would rise by $ 4, 000 and poverty rates would be cut in half.
选项
A、Males.
B、Ethnic males.
C、White males.
D、Women.
答案
C
解析
For which group are wage gaps most often used for comparison?
此题考查听细节的能力。题干中的be used for comparison与It is also used to compare对应。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3462387.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]W:Itseemssomethingisweighingonyourmindthesedays.What’s
[originaltext]W:Itseemssomethingisweighingonyourmindthesedays.What’s
[originaltext]Myfatherwas44andknewhewasn’tgoingtomakeitto45.H
[originaltext]Myfatherwas44andknewhewasn’tgoingtomakeitto45.H
[originaltext]Myfatherwas44andknewhewasn’tgoingtomakeitto45.H
[originaltext]Formanyparents,raisingateenagerislikefightingalong
[originaltext]ToomuchTV-watchingcanharmchildren’sabilitytolearnand
[originaltext]ToomuchTV-watchingcanharmchildren’sabilitytolearnand
[originaltext]W:Mr.Glieberman,doyouseeanychangeinthehighrateofbrok
[originaltext]W:Mr.Glieberman,doyouseeanychangeinthehighrateofbrok
随机试题
Energylevelsebbandflowthroughouttheday,influencedbyeverythingfrom
HintsandTipstoSaveMoneyA)Spendless.Thisisnotoversimplifying
根据《公路工程建设项目概算预算编制办法》(JTG3830-2018)的规定,专项
三个互异的元素a、b、c依次经过一个初始为空的栈后,可以得到()种
闭经时,孕激素试验阳性不能说明A.体内有一定雌激素水平 B.下丘脑--垂体--
下列关于圆环形卡环臂的起始部分的叙述,正确的是()A.卡环臂的起始部
某公司于2010年3月以划拨方式获得某市高新技术开发区土地180亩,后由于公司经
某房地产开发公司以挂牌方式取得一宗普通商品住宅用地的土地使用权,出让年限70年。
某商场失窃,职员涉嫌被询问。公安局的办案人员的第一个问题是:“你以后还敢不敢再偷
现场试验室建成后,必须经()部门验收合格,项目管理机构批准后,方可投入使用。A.
最新回复
(
0
)