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Prep essay8 #26 Please!!!!

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yuanyen100

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发表于 2008-10-18 19:43:00 | 只看该作者

Prep essay8 #26 Please!!!!

Although the industrial union organizations that emerged under the banner of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and 1940s embraced the principles of nondiscrimination and inclusion, the role of women within unions reflected the prevailing gender ideology of the period. Elizabeth Faue's study of the labor movement in Minneapolis argues that women were marginalized by union bureaucratization and by the separation of unions from the community politics from which industrial unionism had emerged. Faue stresses the importance of women's contribution to the development of unions at the community level, contributions that made women's ultimate fate within the city's labor movement all the more poignant: as unions reached the peak of their strength in the 1940s, the community base that had made their success possible and to which women's contributions were so vital became increasingly irrelevant to unions' institutional life.

In her study of CIO industrial unions from the 1930s to the 1970s, Nancy F. Gabin also acknowledges the pervasive male domination in the unions, but maintains that women workers were able to create a political space within some unions to advance their interests as women. Gabin shows that, despite the unions' tendency to marginalize women's issues, working women's demands were a constant undercurrent within the union, and she stresses the links between the unions' women activists and the wave of feminism that emerged in the 1960s.

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Which of the following can be inferred regarding the "gender ideology" mentioned in the highlighted text?

(A) It prevented women from making significant contributions to the establishment of industrial unions.

(B) It resulted from the marginalization of women in industrial unions.

(C) It had a significant effect on the advancement of women's issues within industrial unions.

(D) Its primary tenets were nondiscrimination and inclusion.

(E) Its effects were mitigated by the growth of industrial unions.

为啥是(C)
            我选(D)啊
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            感激不尽

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nipaan

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发表于 2009-8-16 22:20:00 | 只看该作者

我选B,通篇都讲女性被边缘化，所以gender ideology==》B

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nipaan

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发表于 2009-8-16 23:15:00 | 只看该作者

First, let's deconstruct that first sentence a little bit.

ALTHOUGH the unions that emerged (detail detail detail) embraced
nondiscrimination and inclusion (or good things), the role of women reflected
the "gender ideology" of the period.

What this really means:

ALTHOUGH X was true in theory, something different was actually going on
in practice. The unions officially embraced certain policies, but the actual
day-to-day roles of women in particular were a bit "stuck in the past" and,
presumably, the women were still not completely included and still experienced
discrimination despite the lofty policies of the unions.

The right
answer is worded a bit confusingly, but the wrong answers are all definitely
wrong.

A) says that the "gender ideology" prevented women from making
contributions to the establishment of unions, but we don't know anything about
this (and, in particular, we're not talking about who started, or established,
the unions)

B) says that the "gender ideology" resulted from the
marginalization of women - but that's backwards. If anything, the
marginalization of women was a result of the gender ideology.

D) says
that gender ideology's primary tenets were nondiscrimination and inclusion, but
the passage says that the unions
embraced those two things. It doesn't connect the concept of gender ideology
with those things.

E) says that gender ideology's effects were mitigated
by the growth of the unions. Although the end of the first paragraph talks about
the "peak" of the unions - that's not where we're talking about gender ideology.
That part of the passage has moved on to talking about the community base and
women's contributions.

C) says that the gender ideology had a
significant effect on the advancement of women's issues in the unions. If the
unions did embrace non-discrimination and inclusion generally, BUT women still
weren't really being included, and that non-inclusion "reflected the gender
ideology of the period" - well, then that gender ideology did have an impact on
how women were perceived and how women's issues were handled within unions. The
"prevailing gender ideology" is why the women were still having problems despite
the fact that the unions were supposedly embracing non-discrimination and
inclusion.

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