Question 45: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions: As working women continue to receive better and better wages, housewives still work at home without receiving pay-checks. Should a woman who works at home, doing the housework and caring for children, be paid for her service? In a 1986 study at Cornell University, sociologists found that the value of the services of a housewife averaged $11,600 a year. This rate was based on a family composed of a husband, wife, and three young children. The $11,600 is what the husband would have to pay if he hired others to take over his wife’s household chores. The researchers concluded that it would be fair for husbands to pay wives according to federal guidelines for minimum wages. Another plan for rewarding women who work at home has been suggested by a former Secretary of Health and Human Services. He says that full-time housewives should be allowed to pay social security taxes, with their employers contributing part of the payment. He feels that the present system is unfair. He said, “If you stay at home and raise a family, nobody will give you credit for it.” A housewife’s services in a family of five people are worth_ .
The service of a housewife in the family is worth it.
$160 a month on average.
nearly $1,000 a month on average.
more than $1,000 a month on average.
$1,600 a month on average.
Example in sentence 3- paragraph 1: “In a 1986 study at Cornell University, sociologists found that the value of the services of a housewife averaged $11,600 a year.” – (According to research in 1896 at Cornell University, sociologists have found that the cost of services performed by a housewife in the average household is $11,600 a year) => Average almost 1000 dollars a month.
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