Question

Women in Switzerland finally got the vote in 1971. As more and more women entered the workforce, Switzerland looked to the U.S. to see what kinds of changes this meant for the employment market and the unemployment rate. From these U.S. statistics, Switzerland learned that over time in the US as women entered the workforce in the late 20th century the long-run US unemployment rate

A) Remain mostly unchanged

B) Increased

C) Steadily increase

Answer 1

Solution: Remain mostly unchanged

Explanation: The population in U.S. approximately quadrupled from 76 million in 1900 to over 314 million by 2012. In recent decades women have entered the paid labor force in very high numbers, thus causing an increase in proportion of adults in U.S. because women are also categorised in the paid workforce. However despite an the increased number of workers, and economic events such as the continuous invention of new technologies and globalization, the economy has given employment without causing any downward trend or long-term upward in rates of unemployment