GWD-18-Q3

tianyi_2003

GWD-18-Q3-Q6

    The idea that equipping homes 

   with electrical appliances and other

       “modern” household technologies

Line       would eliminate drudgery, save labor

  (5)      time, and increase leisure for women

who were full-time home workers

remained largely unchallenged until

the women’s movement of the 1970’s

spawned the groundbreaking and

 (10)      influential works of sociologist Joann

Vanek and historian Ruth Cowan.

Vanek analyzed 40 years of time-

use surveys conducted by home

economists to argue that electrical

 (15)      appliances and other modern house-

hold technologies reduced the effort

required to perform specific tasks,

but ownership of these appliances did

not correlate with less time spent on

 (20)      housework by full-time home workers.

       In fact, time spent by these workers

       remained remarkably constant―at

about 52 to 54 hours per week―from

the 1920’s to the 1960’s, a period

 (25)      of significant change in household

technology.  In surveying two

centuries of household technology

in the United States, Cowan argued

that the “industrialization” of the home

 (30)      often resulted in more work for full-time

home workers because the use of

such devices as coal stoves, water

       pumps, and vacuum cleaners tended

to reduce the workload of married-

 (35)     women’s helpers (husbands, sons,

daughters, and servants) while

promoting a more rigorous standard

of housework.  The full-time home

worker’s duties also shifted to include

 (40)      more household management, child

care, and the post-Second World War

phenomenon of being “Mom’s taxi.”
                    

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Q3:

According to the passage, which of the following is true about the idea mentioned in line 1?
                    

             

1. It has been undermined by data found in time-use surveys conducted by home economists.
           
2. It was based on a definition of housework that was explicitly rejected by Vanek and Cowan.
           
3. It is more valid for the time period studied by Cowan than for the time period studied by Vanek.
           
4. It is based on an underestimation of the time that married women spent on housework prior to the industrialization of the household.
           
5. It inaccurately suggested that new household technologies would reduce the effort required to perform housework.

The key is A

But why choose A? the surveys conducted by home economists obviousely suppose the idea (marked in red)

the reduced effort results in the increased leisure time for full-time women.

Hope friends can explain for me..

The key is A

But why choose A? the surveys conducted by home economists obviousely suppose the idea (marked in red)

the reduced effort results in the increased leisure time for full-time women.

Hope friends can explain for me..

dianecarton

but ownership of these appliances did

not correlate with less time spent on

 (20)      housework by full-time home workers.

定位以上内容

dianecarton

整个文章就在围绕着effort和time来写的，而经济学家那个做的是time-use surveys

tianyi_2003

恩，懂了，我把作者的看法和Vanek的分析弄混了，谢谢小Diane！

melissa_gao

这道题的E为什么不对呢？？ thanks

tracy2009

同问, 我两次都选了E, 想不通, 哪位NN能帮忙看看吗?先谢过了

mm007_mmgmat

e的答案在第一句话中没有体现啊，mm

GMAT09

Anybody can give more explanations about why not E?

sunny8843

up

smap_014

E不对，文章说了，EFFORT是被减少了
老观点错在认为TIME也减少，其实V和C两人的发现是TIME 没太大变化
"reduced the effort required,  BUT did not correlate with less time"