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.
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.
答案是C。不能理解为什么选C,我选的是B。虽然这个组织说要追求平等,消除歧视,但是实际生活中这些女士在组织中扮演的角色却反映了当时gender ideology的色彩。那么这样的ideology还是对女性的歧视,和对女性参与的边缘化。和advancement有什么关系呢,非但没有advance their issues,而且更加是女性站在社会活动的边缘。 我这样的理解不知道错在哪里? 发现阅读的PREP2部分比PREP1难好多,也错好多,不理解~~~
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