恳求OG RC Q49解疑，谢谢！！！

claudiaqt

原文有关叙述：in additional, 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.

 

题干：Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the explanation provided by the human capital theory for women’s concentration in certain occupations in seventeenth-century Florence?

 

正确选项：Women were unlikely to work outside the home even in occupations whose hours were flexible enough to allow women to accommodate domestic tasks as well as paid labor

我的疑惑：原文的意思是说由于妇女需要照顾孩子，所以她们都集中到了那些可以在家里完成工作的职业中，言下之意就是这些妇女都是在家工作的。而该选项的意思刚好是支持原文论点的，选项说就算有灵活的工作时间使妇女们家和工作两不误，这些妇女也不愿意出来工作，题干要求选“most weaken”的，所以不对？？？

lukeleng

就是

human capital theory 所以她们都集中到了那些可以在家里完成工作的职业中

该选项的意思刚好是支持原文论点的，选项说就算有灵活的工作时间使妇女们家和工作两不误，这些妇女也不愿意出来工作－就会most weaken the explanation provided by the human capital theory for women’s concentration in certain occupations in seventeenth-century Florence

 

 

 

 

atim

从原文那句话的前后语境和自身来看，他的重点是，因为妇女的 primary responsibility 是child rearing，抚养孩子是她们选择在家里工作的原因。要想兼顾工作，只能选择那些在家也能做的工作。

而选项的意思，是说妇女们选择在家工作，并不是因为孩子，他们是不愿意出门工作，即便工作时间hours were flexible enough to allow women to accommodate domestic tasks as well as paid labor。

原文的重点在于human capital theory认为是妇女的母亲角色导致他们在家工作，所以，the most weakenning one在于是不是母亲角色导致了这个项目的发生。明白了没？