Which of the following statements accurately reflects trends during the 1920s regarding women in the work force?
A) With their new feeling of liberation gained during World War I, women made gigantic inroads into previously all-male professions.
B) Most college women entered such traditionally female professions as nursing, school teaching, and librarianship.
C) The proportion of working women who were single rose by about 30, as single women came to dominate teaching at the university level.
D) The number of women in the workforce declined.
E) The number of women physicians soared.
Question 2
What was the social philosophy of Herbert Hoover, as expounded in his book American Individualism?
A) Big business was the answer to America's problems.
B) He saw unfettered competition as the life force of capitalism.
C) He advocated a cooperative, socially responsible economic order shaped by the voluntary action of capitalist leaders.
D) He supported direct government intervention in the economy.
E) He argued in favor of higher wages and higher personal income taxes.
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