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