An Academically Proficient Woman of Working-Class Background Goes to University

question 61

Multiple Choice

An academically proficient woman of working-class background goes to university on financially plentiful scholarships and while there she meets her future partner,who is connected to the upper echelons of Canada's Foreign Service.They marry and she eventually becomes a senior government bureaucrat.According to the text,how has her education helped her career?

• A) Educational qualifications helped her overcome the stigma attached to being a woman in a male field.
• B) Her opportunities were enhanced by the type of social networks that university opened to her.
• C) Scholarships form part of an affirmative action approach,levelling the playing field for the disadvantaged.
• D) Meritocracy worked in this instance,where a gifted person otherwise would have languished.

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