Deck 11: Job Discrimination

Question 1

In finance, how many cents do women make for every dollar earned by men?

A)45
B)56
C)68
D)76

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Kant would hold that discriminating on the basis of race or sex was immoral because it

A)Failed to maximize happiness
B)Violated the social contract
C)Failed to respect persons as ends in themselves
D)Failed to enhance the well-being of those engaging in it

Answer 2

C

Question 3

When was the Equal Pay Act passed?

A)1961
B)1963
C)1964
D)1965

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What is more important in predicting who will be fired from a job with the federal government?

A)Age
B)Prior performance
C)Race
D)Disciplinary history

Question 5

How many male minority executives in large companies report feeling constrained by the white male model?

A)24
B)34
C)44
D)54

Question 6

Which court case decided that racially segregated schooling was unconstitutional?

A)Bakke v.Regents of the University of California
B)Brown v.Board
C)Griggs v.Palmer
D)Griswold v.Connecticut

Question 7

What started the change towards laws that attempt to safeguard the right of each person to equal treatment in employment?

A)Executive Order 10925
B)The Equal Pay Act
C)The Civil Rights Act
D)Executive Order 10256

Question 8

Women are clustered in

A)White collar occupations
B)Blue collar occupations
C)Yellow collar occupations
D)Pink collar occupations

Question 9

Black workers with an advanced degree earn how much less that their white counterparts?

A)10%
B)15%
C)25%
D)30%

Question 10

Edward W.Jones holds that all people

A)Possess stereotypes
B)Are biased against others of a different race
C)Are biased against others of a different sex
D)Are incompetent in different ways

Question 11

How many respectable arguments are there in favor of racial and sexual discrimination?

A)None
B)One
C)Two
D)Three

Question 12

What programs are designed to correct imbalances in employment that exist directly as a result of past discriminations?

A)Social Workshop Programs
B)Negative Action Programs
C)Race-based Priority Programs
D)Affirmative Action Programs

Question 13

Which Title of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sexual and racial discrimination at work?

A)VI
B)VII
C)VIII
D)IX

Question 14

The first African American CEO of a Fortune 500 company was hired in

A)1979
B)1989
C)1999
D)2009

Question 15

According to Edward W.Jones, stereotypes are powerful because of their

A)Accuracy
B)Circularity
C)Psychological force
D)Adaptive advantage

Question 16

Who has the highest standard of living in the world, according to the U.N.?

A)Europeans
B)White Americans
C)African Americans
D)Australians

Question 17

Notre Dame did not hire an African-American coach in any sport until

A)1996
B)2001
C)2002
D)2004

Question 18

Historically, most discrimination in the American workplace has focused on

A)Women
B)Minorities
C)Women, but not minorities
D)Women and minorities

Question 19

What proportion of persons entering the workforce today are minorities or immigrants?

A)25%
B)50%
C)65%
D)80%

Question 20

What percentage of working African Americans hold white collar jobs?

A)11
B)25
C)36
D)40

Question 21

In her majority opinion in Grutter v.Bollinger Justice O'Connor wrote that race-conscious admissions policies must be

A)Continued indefinitely
B)Limited in time
C)Prohibited shortly
D)Imposed in all schools

Question 22

The phrase quid pro quo refers to giving something in return for something else.

Question 23

The U.S.Supreme Court's first major ruling on affirmative action was in

A)Brown v.Board
B)Griggs v.Palmer
C)Griswold v.Connecticut
D)Bakke v.Regents of the University of California

Question 24

In Memphis Firefights v.Stotts the Supreme Court upheld

A)Seniority over affirmative action
B)Nepotism over affirmative action
C)Affirmative action over seniority
D)Affirmative action over nepotism

Question 25

The Seventeenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.

Question 26

Phyllis Schlafly endorses the doctrine of comparable worth.

Question 27

The doctrine of comparable worth holds that women and men should be paid on the same scale not only for doing the same or equivalent jobs but for doing jobs that involve equal skill, effort, and responsibility.

Question 28

Larry May believes that some offers can be coercive.

Question 29

No large American corporation has escaped the issue of sexual harassment.

Question 30

Most large corporations find that diversity benefits the bottom line.

Question 31

The U.S.Supreme Court has stated that statistical evidence by itself does not prove discrimination.

Question 32

The courts do not consider sexual harassment a form of sex discrimination.

Question 33

William Faulkner held that the past isn't even past.

Question 34

The median wealthy of white households in the United States is more than ten timkes that of Hispanic or African-American households.

Question 35

Legal secretaries, who are mainly women, earn more than instrument repair technicians, who are mainly men.

Question 36

Critics of affirmative action often label it

A)Positive discrimination
B)Reverse discrimination
C)Unconstitutional discrimination
D)Paternalistic discrimination