. ---------------------------------------------------------------------. The unemployment rates are increasing, and their effect on men is more critical than on women. At the end of 2019, America's labor force was almost split evenly between men and women. At 50.04%, women held slightly more jobs than men in December (CNN Business). There are families where the woman works while the father struggles to find a job. This imbalance causes issues on familial and social levels. Another issue is that most employers actually prefer hiring women because women accept lower salary rates— not to maintain gender equality. Working women often hit the glass ceiling where they cannot advance professionally because of employers' discrimination against women. Hence, it is advisable that women quit their jobs to give men the opportunity to be in their right place: in the office, and not at home.

6. The topic sentence that best fits paragraph 4 is:

Having a working mother affects the child's well-being. Mothers who quit their jobs suffer from unemployment depression. An important advantage of mothers’ unemployment is that it leaves job opportunities for men. Unemployment rates have been increasing for the past 5 years.

7. The writer supports the main idea in paragraph 4 that women are holding more jobs than men by using:*

personal opinion

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numbers