Correct Response: C. Compared with participants in the late twentieth-century women's movement, nineteenth- century advocates of women's rights were much more reluctant to challenge the traditional assumption that women must choose between motherhood and a professional career. Many nineteenth-century women who did enter the workforce were unmarried. Nineteenth-century proponents of women's rights did, however, believe that women were able to exercise the responsibilities of citizenship (A), as their demands for voting rights clearly indicated. They also hoped to expand the range of educational opportunities open to women (B), often arguing that women could not fulfill their maternal duties without an adequate education. And in their efforts to obtain suffrage, nineteenth-century champions of women's rights tried to secure whatever support they could from a wide variety of contemporary women's organizations (D).
