请教个36套阅读 ecercise 30

ep6h123UID: 2960051

Sex-defined protective laws have often been based on stereotypical assumptions concerning women’s needs and abilities and employers have frequently used them as legal excuses for discriminating against women. After the Second World War, for example, businesses and government sought to persuade women to vacate jobs in factories, thus making room in the labor force for returning veterans. The revival or passage of state laws limiting the daily or weekly work hours of women conveniently accomplished this. Employers had only to declare that overtime hours were a necessary condition of employment or promotion in their factory, and women could be quite legally fired, refused jobs, or kept at low wage levels, all in the name of “protecting” their health. By validating such laws when they are challenged by lawsuits, the courts have colluded over the years in establishing different, less advantageous employment terms for women than for men, thus reducing women’s competitiveness on the job market. At the same time, even the most well-intentioned lawmakers, courts, and employers have often been blind to the real needs of women. The lawmakers and the courts continue to permit employers to offer employee health insurance plans that cover all known human medical disabilities except those relating to pregnancy and childbirth.

　　2. The author places the word “protecting” in quotation marks in line 9, paragraph 2 most likely in order to suggest that
　　[A] she is quoting the actual wording of the laws in question.
　　[B] the protective nature of the laws in question should not be overlooked.
　　[C] protecting the health of workers is important to those who support protective labor laws.
　　[D] the laws in question were really used to the detriment of women workers, despite being overtly protective in intent.
答案D  里despite being overtly protective in intent. 我认为是错误的，法律的本意并不是真正意图过度保护女工。A为什么不对？

dandelionttUID: 2852417

他的意思就是，本来这些法律是用来保护女工的，就是说工作不可以伤害女工的身体，类似这样的法律，但是这个条款却成为用来辞去女工的托词，这个工作会伤害女工的健康云云。这就是保护要打引号的原因

szmanutdUID: 2727152

actually this law does not protect women哦~
tips 涉及女权的 文章必定要保护她们