GMATNinja wrote:
Shivikaa wrote:
For Q2, I was confused between A and B. I didn't even consider C as an option. how did you guys choose option C?
Please explain.
Thanks in advance.
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2. Which of the following can be inferred regarding the "gender ideology" mentioned in the highlighted text?
A. It prevented women from making significant contributions to the establishment of industrial unions. - This can be eliminated because we are told that women did in fact make important contributions to the establishment of the unions: "Faue stresses the importance of women's contribution to the development of unions at the community level." Eliminate (A).
B. It resulted from the marginalization of women in industrial unions. - The passage does say that women were marginalized by union bureaucratization, but this reflected the PREVAILING gender idealogy of the period. In other words, the marginalization reflected an idealogy that already existed. The marginalization did not CAUSE the idealogy. Eliminate (B).
C. It had a significant effect on the advancement of women's issues within industrial unions. - We can infer that the prevailing idealogy was one that marginalized women. So the marginalization of women in unions was a product of this prevailing idealogy. If a group is marginalized, then its power and importance is reduced. Being marginalized would obviously affect a group's ability to make advances. (C) looks good.
D. Its primary tenets were nondiscrimination and inclusion. - We are told that the unions themselves generally "embraced the principles of nondiscrimination and inclusion", but the prevailing gender idealogy caused women to be marginalized. This idealogy was one that CAUSED discrimination, not one that upheld nondiscrimination. Eliminate (D).
E. Its effects were mitigated by the growth of industrial unions. - The unions did not mitigate (i.e. lessen) the discriminatory effects of the prevailing ideology. Instead, the unions REFLECTED the discriminatory effects of the prevailing ideology. Eliminate (E).
Choice (C) is the best answer. I hope that helps!
GMATNinja - Thank you for the amazing explanation. Wanted to confirm on the E part...in the second Para talks about where women were able to create their own political space. So, can we say that its effects were reduced with the growth of the unions or are we saying that there are two interpretations of the scenario where one persons says that women were powerless and their importance were zero because of the male discrimination and the other person is saying that yes male discrimination was there but the women took some political space...So here, she is acknowledging that discriminatory effects and hence the effects has not lessen with the growth of the unions but she has a different point of view about women - i.e they had some role in the political space.
Thanks
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