1. Marxists, socialists, and communists have been leaders of the struggle to achieve gender equality in order to
a. help women CEOs and military leaders defeat unionization drives and struggles for self-determination.
b. unite the working class, end wage discrimination against women and gender-based job segregation, and build alliances in the wider struggle for gender equality in all areas of society.
c. defend the nuclear family and traditional family values.
d. organize women to take up arms against all capitalist and patriarchal governments.
2. The Trump administration repealed affirmative action executive orders from the 1960s. While the term did not exist at the time, the first “affirmative action” labor contracts, which gave women a higher wage increase than men because of past discrimination, were negotiated by
a. the Communist-led United Electrical Workers Union in the pre–Cold War era contract, which provided higher wage increases for women who been paid less for equal work.
b. The New York City Board of Education in the 1950s.
c. The Teamsters Union in the 1960s.
d. Walmart in the 1990s.
3. After the counter-revolution which destroyed the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Treaty socialist allies,
a. the status of women has not changed.
b. the position of women has improved tremendously thanks to vacuum cleaners, microwaves, and other labor-saving household appliances.
c. women have gained equality with men because of the significant role of women in the new capitalist class.
d. the rights of women have come under renewed attack with the strengthening of the right globally. The right to an abortion has been abolished in some countries; and the elimination of full-employment policies, access to childcare, and other pro-equality measures — particularly in the previously socialist countries — have also undermined the social position of women.
4. Women members of the Communist Party USA have made major contributions to a wide variety of people’s struggles and victories throughout U.S. history. Which one of the following was not a woman who made major contributions to people’s struggles as a CPUSA activist?
a. Rossana Cambron
b. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
c. Alice Paul
d. Edna Griffin
5. The CPUSA today actively campaigns for
a. the restoration of abortion and general reproductive rights for all women.
b. the passage of an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to make gender equality a part of the U.S. Constitution.
c. the restoration and protection of affirmative action policy for minorities and women.
d. All of the above
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