A Dramatic Social Development Affecting the Status and Expectations of Women

question 18

Multiple Choice

A dramatic social development affecting the status and expectations of women in Western Europe since the 1960s has been

• A)moves by conservative governments to pass legislation making it far more difficult for women to work outside the home.
• B)the effective lobbying of the European Catholic churches to outlaw abortion and restrict the sale of contraceptives.
• C)the collapse of European social welfare states under the burden of rapidly aging populations.
• D)an increase in birth rates across Europe because of increasing prosperity and more leisure time.
• E)a persistent decline in birth rates across Europe, with Spain's becoming the lowest in the world.

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