RC Drill Set 6, Question 4
There are two especially influential interpretations of nineteenth-century(430 more words not shown)
According to the passage, studies(27 more words not shown)
- AFeminist support for(20 more words not shown)
- BSuch laws and(23 more words not shown)
- CWomen trade unionists(22 more words not shown)
- DThe potential impact(29 more words not shown)
- EMale trade unionists,(24 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The feminist historians are the third group, and they expose what the protective label can hide. Laws could keep wives available for unpaid work or reserve paid jobs for men. Government policy could move women into or out of work to meet its own needs.
What we’re looking for
That gives women a reason to mistrust the policies: whose interests were they actually serving?
Working the answers
- A
Philosophical inconsistency with the suffrage argument belongs to the liberal legal historians' explanation, not this group's findings.
- BCorrect
The unions' aims favor husbands and male workers, while the government policies are explicitly “self-interested.” These details show why a policy presented as protection could primarily benefit others rather than women workers.
- C
No campaign soliciting feminist support because women unionists lacked male allies is described. It sounds possible, but isn't the stated reason for opposition.
- D
The harms aren't presented as simply unforeseen: some legislation was intended to drive women out of paid employment (paragraph 2). Nor do these historians propose enfranchisement as the alternative policy here.
- E
Male unionists' support for the laws is mentioned. But the added history of ignoring demands and excluding women from decision-making isn't given, so we can't treat it as the explanation for feminist hostility.
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