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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A how women who report sexual harassment are silenced and retaliated against.
B how the legal system works to remove sexual harassers immediately.
C how seriously large companies take women’s safety.
D given the benefit of the doubt when they report sexual harassment.
Question #2
A women on average prefer people to things.
B they face discrimination in the hiring process.
C many tech companies have a toxic culture of sexual harassment against women.
D they are told that computer engineering is not “for girls.”
Question #3
A of their general anti-social tendencies.
B they made up the majority of computer hardware engineers.
C they were considered creative risk-takers.
D of their greater attention to detail and patience.
Question #4
A job growth overall has slowed.
B women have crossed into male-dominated fields, but men have yet to move into female-dominated fields in similar numbers.
C the majority of women are still stay-at-home mothers.
D companies are afraid of reverse discrimination lawsuits.
Question #5
A when large numbers of women enter it.
B when the field grows so fast and cannot keep up with demand for workers.
C when the supply of workers outpaces demand for the product.
D when large number of men enter it.
Question #6
A employers have a certain number of jobs that they must fill with a female candidate.
B employers have a certain number of jobs that they must fill with a candidate who is a person of color.
C employers make assumptions about how workers will perform based on the groups to which they belong.
D employers make hiring decisions at random so as to not discriminate.
Question #7
A These jobs have high concentrations of women since they represent formerly unpaid tasks historically performed by women.
B there are not enough men of working age to fill all the new jobs.
C these jobs are primarily being filled by college-educated men.
D highly educated women are filling these jobs.
Question #8
A 75% male.
B 50% female.
C 99% male.
D 75% female.
Question #9
A increased significantly
B stayed about the same
C become an irrelevant measure
D decreased significantly
Question #10
A book smarts
B a college education
C getting a good white collar job
D commonsense
Question #11
A valuing an education over money.
B working hard to get into college.
C putting minimal effort into school.
D competing to be at the top of their class.
Question #12
A the fact that boy are less likely to graduate, have lower GPAs, and are more likely to be disciplined in school than girls.
B the fact that boys are exceeding girls in AP test scores across all subject areas.
C the lower rates of college enrollment for girls than for boys.
D the large numbers of girls who drop out of high school compared to boys.
Question #13
A people with more positive outlooks do worse on exams.
B having unrealistically positive views of yourself motivates effort and persistence on challenging tasks.
C people with more pessimistic personalities do better on exams.
D if students feel more positively toward their teachers they will do better in the class.
Question #14
A girls score higher on math tests than boys.
B it contributes to domain disengagement from math and science.
C women don’t want to be considered manly for liking math and science.
D men are afraid that they will commit sexual harassment without realizing it.
Question #15
A their scores went up.
B their scores went down.
C they scored the same as male students.
D they quit the test halfway through.
Question #16
A the pressure leads to women doing better.
B the person scoring the test relies on stereotypes rather than the actual answers.
C that it takes away mental energy needed to complete cognitively demanding tasks.
D that it helps students focus on completing cognitively demanding tasks.