In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile
industry, women were employed primarily in lowpaying,
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 wages 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.
48. 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?
(A) 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.
(B) Parents were less likely to teach occupational
skills to their daughters than they were to their
sons.
(C) Women’s participation in the Florentine paid
labor force grew steadily throughout the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
(D) The vast majority of female weavers in the
Florentine wool industry had children.
(E) Few women worked as weavers in the Florentine
silk industry, which was devoted to making
cloths that required a high degree of skill to
produce.
答案选A
B项它因削弱为何不对？作者: SDty8 时间: 2012-2-9 06:40
UP,DING!!作者: shlshingse 时间: 2012-2-9 20:54
【文章定位】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. 人力资源理论认为妇女在特定低技术领域集中的原因是：她们要养育孩子，只能承担一些可以带回家完成的工作。
【选项B】说，父母不愿意教授女儿职业技能。
●假如『父母不愿意教授女儿职业技能』的原因也是『她们要养育孩子，只能承担一些可以带回家完成的工作』。那就无法削弱。
●他因要和本因互斥才好使。所以，最好选择直接削弱。作者: SDty8 时间: 2012-2-10 06:38
说得好，我的注意力都集中在第一点原因了。。谢谢！
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