Vatsal7794 wrote:
What I didn't understood is what was the flaw in this counting census.? Is it that the count was not including each and every member of the family?
Vatsal7794 In the very first sentence of the passage, the author sets the scene for us:
occupational information about women that was provided by the United States census
became more detailed and precise in response to social changes.
Does that context help you identify the flaw here?
the head of the household (presumed male or absent) was specified by name, whereas other household members were only indicated by the total number of persons counted in various categories, including occupational categories.Vatsal7794 wrote:
Que 2)About Which two groups is it talking about?
"Overlap between the two groups was not calculated until 1890"
the census superintendent reported 1.8 million
women employed outside the home in "gainful and reputable occupations." In addition, he arbitrarily attributed to each family
one woman "keeping house."So the overlap is when the woman "keeping house" is also employed outside the home.
Vatsal7794 wrote:
Que 3) Don't know why but struggling with this passage and with question number 3.
household members were only indicated by the total number of persons counted in various categories, including occupational categories.Process of elimination is generally the way to go with inference questions. You can eliminate ADE based on just the first word: the 1840 census didn't differentiate between men and women. And the correct answer can be inferred thanks to the differentiation among
occupational categories (farming is an occupational category).
Vatsal7794 wrote:
Understanding each and every details in passage is not so important?
Yes, we're better off not understanding
any details in our initial read, but rather
why those details are there - how they serve the author's purpose. Understanding the author's choice to include some detail does not require us to understand that detail.
Later, once we see what particular detail a question is asking about, we can go study that detail (and ignore all the others).
I demonstrated this in a YouTube Live event which you can view here, and I have another one coming up this Sunday: