Whitefeather's Statuses Include Being Elderly, Aboriginal, and Female

question 36

Multiple Choice

Whitefeather's statuses include being elderly, Aboriginal, and female. What hypothesis might be applied to her?

• A) age as leveller hypothesis
• B) compression of morbidity hypothesis
• C) multiple jeopardy hypothesis
• D) multiple discriminators hypothesis

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