6. The passage supports which of the following statements about hiring policies in the United States?

　　(A) After a crisis many formerly "male" jobs are reclassified as "female" jobs.

　　(B) Industrial employers generally prefer to hire women with previous experience as homemakers.

　　(C) Post-Second World War hiring policies caused women to lose many of their wartime gains in employment opportunity.

　　(D) Even war industries during the Second World War were reluctant to hire women for factory work.

　　(E) The service sector of the economy has proved more nearly gender-blind in its hiring policies than has the manufacturing sector.

　　7. Which of the following words best expresses the opinion of the author of the passage concerning the notion that women are more skillful than men in carrying out detailed tasks?

　　(A) "patient" (line 21)

　　(B) "repetitive" (line 21)

　　(C) "hoary" (line 22)

　　(D) "homemaking" (line 23)

　　(E) "purview" (line 24)

　　8. Which of the following best describes the relationship of the final paragraph to the passage as a whole?

　　(A) The central idea is reinforced by the citation of evidence drawn from twentieth-century history.

　　(B) The central idea is restated in such a way as to form a transition to a new topic for discussion.

　　(C) The central idea is restated and juxtaposed with evidence that might appear to contradic it.

　　(D) A partial exception to the generalizations of the central idea is dismissed as unimportant.

　　(E) Recent history is cited to suggest that the central idea's validity is gradually diminishing.