In this section, you have short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.
Passage:
According to the civil laws of most countries obedience is no longer the duty of a wife; every woman has the political right to vote; but these liberties remain theoretical as long as she does not have economic freedom. A woman supported by a man is not liberated from the male. It is through gainful employment that woman has travelled most of the distance that separated her from the male; and nothing else can guarantee her liberty in practice. I once heard a maidservant declare, while cleaning the stone floor of a hotel lobby, “I never asked anybody for anything; J succeeded all by myself.” She was as proud of her self- sufficiency as a Rockefeller, Ford or Birla. However, the mere combination of the right to vote and a job does not mean complete liberation : working, today, is not a liberty. A recent study of women workers in a car factory shows that they would prefer to stay in the home rather than work in the factory. The majority of women do not escape from the traditional feminine world. Their jobs at the factory do not relieve them of housekeeping burdens; they get from neither society nor their husbands, the assistance they need to become in concrete fact the equals of men.
Which of the following helps women most to achieve equality with men ?
- AThe right to vote
- BCivil liberties
- CA job
- DWealthy husbands
Explanation
The passage is explicit: 'It is through gainful employment that woman has travelled most of the distance that separated her from the male; and nothing else can guarantee her liberty in practice.' A job - gainful employment - is therefore what helps most. The passage calls civil liberties and the vote 'theoretical' without economic freedom, wealthy husbands are the dependence the writer rejects, and the vote alone is listed among those theoretical liberties. The stored key (B) contradicted the passage's own sentence, so it is corrected here. Hence a job, option C, is correct.