Reading Comprehension: Application Questions
Which of the following would best support the author's theory that a wage gap known as the motherhood penalty still exists?
Great!
[[snippet]]In this scenario, a working mother is less likely to get a promotion, which carries a higher salary, than a woman without children, which creates a wage gap between the two groups of women.
This is further supported by the following sentence in the fourth paragraph: employers often believe that working mothers are less committed to their jobs than men, with or without children, or childless women and therefore deny them promotions or raises.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]The motherhood penalty refers to a wage gap between women, not between women and men.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]This scenario does not show a wage gap between women, nor is the degree of respect accorded to women in the workplace mentioned anywhere in the passage.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]First of all, this scenario does not show a wage gap but a difference in benefits provided. Second of all, working mothers have an advantage over childless women in this scenario, whereas in the scenario described in the passage, working mothers are at a disadvantage.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]Although this does show a wage gap between women, the motherhood penalty favors childless women, whereas in this scenario, working mothers make more money than childless women.
