GWD-28-27 讨论链接里没有，大家进来看看吧

28-passage three

Many politicians, business leaders, and scholars discount the role of public policy and emphasize the role of the labor market when explaining employers' maternity-leave policies, arguing that prior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, employers were already providing maternity leave in response to the increase in the number of women workers.  Employers did create maternity-leave programs in the 1970's and 1980's, but not as a purely voluntary response in the absence of any government mandate. In 1972, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that employers who allowed leaves for disabling medical conditions must also allow them for maternity and that failure to do so would constitute sex discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  As early as 1973, a survey found that 58 percent of large employers had responded with new maternity-leave policies. Because the 1972 EEOC ruling was contested in court, the ruling won press attention that popularized maternity-leave policies. Yet perhaps because the Supreme Court later struck down the ruling, politicians and scholars have failed to recognize its effects, assuming that employers adopted maternity-leave policies in response to the growing feminization of the workforce.

我顶！

我是看见eeoc就没往ab上看，因为很显然，那堆政治家啥得根本就不知道有eeoc这回事，所以咋说咋错～～

选B

根据最后一句话可以定位，当最高法院废除RULE之后，POLITICS认为已经没有影响了，实际上，影响还在（根据全文得出）

Many politicians, business leaders,

            and scholars discount the role of

            public policy and emphasize the role

Line     of the labor market when explaining

  (5)      employers’ maternity-leave policies,

arguing that prior to the passage of

the Family and Medical Leave Act

(FMLA) of 1993, employers were

already providing maternity leave in

 (10)     response to the increase in the number

of women workers. Employers did

create maternity-leave programs

in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but not as

a purely voluntary response in the

 (15)     absence of any government mandate.

So clearly it is D. IMO

D preferred,如根据最后一句，反而可以说明They agree that the EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy had an initial impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs 是错的，最后一句中说这些assuming that employers adopted
                maternity-leave policies in response to the growing feminization of theworkforce.