Explanation

1. B
The correct choice for this question is Choice B. We are told that few women remained in the manufacturing sector once men returned from the war, while the number of women who worked in agriculture increased after the war as the number of men in agriculture decreased. It is therefore inferable that the percentage of employees working in manufacturing who were men increased while the percentage of employees working in agriculture who were men decreased. Choices A, C, and E are incorrect because the passage provides no information about rates of expansion, wage trends, or women’s job satisfaction. Choice D is incorrect because the only mention of the popular media occurs in the final sentence, and no distinction is made between the sectors there.

2. D
The correct choice for this question is Choice D. We are told in the passage that women’s employment in manufacturing fell quickly after men returned from the war. However, not only did women’s employment in agriculture not decline after the end of the war, it actually increased. The other choices are incorrect because the passage provides no information about what women who joined the workforce wanted to do; about the distribution of women across industries; about what happened to women who left manufacturing; nor about media appeals for women to join the wartime workforce.
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this one was quite simple

4mins 42 seconds .
correct 2/2
Stratergy: notemaking simplification and Process of elimination.
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Took me 3 min 54sec, but I was confident with the answers

How do you manage to take notes in such less time? How much time we should give to each question in RC?
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Hi Admin,

Seems like timer has been removed from all the questions. Not sure if I have to change some setting ?
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Fixed
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Ah, this is like the GMATClub format! This is different from the initial one.

Note that GMAT monitor your time on each question, but GRE doesn't and hence the older version of the timer would allow one to parse through all the question to better assess timings.

Nevertheless not a big issue. I understand the design is being synchronized with GC
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May I know what type of question is no.2? Is it a Factual Question? or Main Idea Question?

It's a fact-based question like which option is supported by the passage.


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Please refer to the GRE Reading Comprehension - The Definitive Strategies Guide (2022)

Specifically the fifth chapter https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/master-th ... tml#p87161



Which of the following statements about women’s employment in the United States during and after the Second World War is most clearly supported by the passage?


Clearly an inference question

Regards
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For Q2.
Number of men decreased and number of women increased is still talking only about numbers.
It could be that there were a million men and two hundred women or it could be the other way around.
How can we infer percents when even the GRE uses "few" to mean "anything below the majority" so it can be 49% or 0.001%

Can someone help me out here please.

Q1 - clearly an inference question

refer to the following part of the passage
"studies also acknowledge that few women remained in manufacturing jobs once men returned from the war. But in agriculture, unlike other industries where women were viewed as temporary workers, women’s employment did not end with the war."
"expansion of agriculture and a steady decrease in the number of male farmworkers combined to cause the industry to hire more women in the postwar years."

Thus number of women in Manufacturing decreased after the war, but in agriculture it remained same - therefore %age of men increased in Manufacturing than in agriculture

Let's go through the options:-
A. The rate of expansion in each sector - passage talks about expansion of agriculture sector, but is mum on expansion of manufacturing sector, so we cant infer that the rates of each differed.

B. The percentage of employees in each sector who were men - This can be inferred as explained above

C. The trend in the wages of men employed in each sector - No such thing mentioned

D. The attitude of the popular media toward the employment of women in each sector - attitude of media referred to only in agri sector

E. The extent to which women in each sector were satisfied with their jobs - nothing on this in the passage
Hence Option B is correct


Q2 - inference question

A. Most women who joined the workforce during the Second World War wanted to return to domestic life when the war ended.- that was the rhetoric in media, not the women's opinion
B. The great majority of women who joined the workforce during the Second World War were employed in manufacturing jobs. - no such percentages or comparisons mentioned
C. The end of the Second World War was followed by a large-scale transfer of women workers from manufacturing to agriculture. - no mention of transfers, only reduction in percentage of women in manufacturing and increase percentage of women in agri mentioned.
D. The increase in women’s employment that accompanied the Second World War was longer lasting in agriculture than it was in manufacturing. - mentioned in the passage - "But in agriculture, unlike other industries where women were viewed as temporary workers, women’s employment did not end with the war."
E. The popular media were more forceful in calling for women to join the workforce during the Second World War than in calling for women to return to domestic life after the war. - passage mentions only whats given in the later part of the option

Hence option D is correct.
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Got it, thanks !