以下是引用phoebe2009在2008-11-18 1:19:00的发言:偶不懂你说的这个GWD-TN-19是哪里的题啊,是这个GWD的题吗?只考了25题吗,那还出了什么别的题目呢?
答案也来讨论一下啊,27题选什么呢?
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.
一堆人强调劳动力市场对妇女产假政策的影响,忽视了公共政策。他们说在1993年FMLA通过前,雇主已经因应增加的妇女工人提供产假。这是真的,但不单纯是雇主的自愿行为。1972年EEOC就有相关规定。早至1973年,58%的大雇主已实行产假政策。因为EEOC的规定受到争议,引起媒体关注,从而普及了产假。但可能因为法院取消了这规定,政治家和学者没认识到它的影响。
28-25: It can be inferred that the author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about government policy?
A: Government policy is generally unaffected by pressures in the labor market.
B: The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened by sustained press attention.
C: It is possible for a particular government policy to continue to have an impact after that policy has been eliminated.
D: A given government policy can be counterproductive when that policy has already unofficially been implemented.
E: The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened when the ruling is contested in court.
28-26: missing
28-27: The passage suggests that the relationship between the view of the author with respect to maternity leave policy prior to passage of the FMLA and the view of the politicians, business leaders, and scholars mentioned in lines 1-2 can best be characterized by which of the following statements?
A: They agree that both the 1972 EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy and the increasing feminization of the workplace had an impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs but disagree about the relative importance of each factor.
B: They agree that the EEOC ruling on maternity-leave policy had an initial impact on employers’ creation of maternity-leave programs but disagree over whether the Supreme Court’s striking down of the EEOC ruling weakened that impact.
C: They agree that creating maternity-leave programs was a necessary response to the needs of the increasing number of women workers but disagree about whether maternity should be classified as a disabling medical condition.
D: They agree that employers created maternity-leave programs prior to passage of the FMLA but disagree about employers’ motivations for doing so.
E: They agree that employers created maternity-leave programs prior to passage of the FMLA but disagree about how widespread those programs were.
我选了B ????????????