[讨论]OG265题理解不了

rivergirl

Passage 44

In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry, women were employed primarily in low-paying, low-skill jobs. To explain this segregation of labor by gender, economists have relied on the useful theory of human capital. According to this theory, investment in human capital-the acquisition of difficult job-related skills-generally benefits individuals by making them eligible to engage in well-paid occupations. Women’s role as child bearers, however, results in interruptions in their participation in the job market (as compared with men’s) and thus reduces their opportunities to acquire training for highly skilled work. In addition, the human capital theory explains why there was a high concentration of women workers in certain low-skill jobs, such as weaving, but not in others, such as combing or carding, by positing that because of their primary responsibility in child rearing women took occupations that could be carried out in the home. There were, however, differences in pay scales that cannot be explained by the human capital theory. For example, male construction workers were paid significantly higher wage than female taffeta weavers. The wage difference between these two low-skill occupations stems from the segregation of labor by gender: because a limited number of occupations were open to women, there was a large supply of workers in their fields, and this “overcrowding” resulted in women receiving lower wages and men receiving higher wages.

265. The passage suggests that combing and carding differ from weaving in that combing and

carding are

(A) low-skill jobs performed by primarily by women employees

(B) low-skill jobs that were not perfomed in the home

(C) low-skill jobs performed by both male and female employees

(D) high-skill jobs performed outside the home

(E) high-skill jobs performed by both male and female employees

请教对于红线部分的but not  in others, 这个others指的是什么

skidals

why there was a high concentration of women workers in certain low-skill jobs, such as weaving, but not in others, such as combing or carding, by positing that because of their primary responsibility in child rearing women took occupations that could be carried out in the home.

请教对于红线部分的but not  in others, 这个others指的是什么

combing或者carding这样技能简单的工作。为什么女工多集中在技能简单的工作，比如weaving，而不是象combing or carding这些技能简单的工作？因为女工有照顾孩子的职责，而weaving是可以在家中完成的。

所以题目问combing or carding和weaving的区别就在于前者是low skill jobs that were not performed in the home

rivergirl

谢谢, 懂了. 一开始理解反了