Although the industrial union organizations that emerged under the banner of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and 1940s embraced the principles of nondiscrimination and inclusion, the role of women within unions reflected the prevailing gender ideology of the period. Elizabeth Faue's study of the labor movement in Minneapolis argues that women were marginalized by union bureaucratization and by the separation of unions from the community politics from which industrial unionism had emerged. Faue stresses the importance of women's contribution to the development of unions at the community level, contributions that made women's ultimate fate within the city's labor movement all the more poignant: as unions reached the peak of their strength in the 1940s, the community base that had made their success possible and to which women's contributions were so vital became increasingly irrelevant to unions' institutional life.

In her study of CIO industrial unions from the 1930s to the 1970s, Nancy F, Gabin also acknowledges the pervasive male domination in the unions, but maintains that women workers were able to create a political space within some unions to advance their interests as women. Gabin shows that, despite the unions' tendency to marginalize women's issues, working women's demands were a constant undercurrent within the union, and she stresses the links between the unions' women activists and the wave of feminism that emerged in the 1960s.



Which of the following can be inferred regarding the "gender ideology" mentioned in the highlighted text?


It prevented women from making significant contributions to the establishment of industrial unions.

It resulted from the marginalization of women in industrial unions.

It had a significant effect on the advancement of women's issues within industrial unions.

Its primary tenets were nondiscrimination and inclusion.

Its effects were mitigated by the growth of industrial unions. 

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正确答案是 C. 它对工会 对于女性问题的推进有重大影响。因为文章提到,当工会在 1940 年代达到高峰时,女性贡献了大量劳动,但仍然被工会忽视,甚至被剥夺了社区关系,它们能够取得成功的基础。同时,Nancy F Gabin 的研究表明,尽管男性支配工会的现象很普遍, 但女劳工仍然能够在某些工会里创造一个政治空间来推进她们作为女性的利益。因此,可以推断出,当时存在的性别意识形态对工会对女性问题的推进有重大影响。

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