Womens work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household to the office or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since before the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupations by gender, lower pay for women as a group, jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while womens household labor remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that technology is always inherently revolutionary in its effects on society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of women both in the labor market and in the home.
17. Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
The effects of the mechanization of womens work have not borne out the frequently held assumption that new technology is inherently revolutionary.
Recent studies have shown that mechanization revolutionizes a societys traditional values and the customary roles of its members.
Mechanization has caused the nature of womens work to change since the Industrial Revolution.
The mechanization of work creates whole new classes of jobs that did not previously exist.
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