How Did Discrimination Against Women Hurt Developing Countries' Efforts to Combat

question 7

Multiple Choice

How did discrimination against women hurt developing countries' efforts to combat poverty at the end of the twentieth century?

• A) Customs preventing women from participating in the marketplace limited the opportunities for economic transactions in these countries.
• B) Imbalances in the numbers of men and women in the population reduced the number of productive households below what it ideally would have been.
• C) The lack of effective antidiscrimination laws drove wages down throughout these countries' workforces.
• D) Women's lack of access to education and high rates of illiteracy limited their abilities to become effective economic actors.

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