Question

Which of these sentences about the status of women in Jane Austen’s time is true?

A.
Educated women could take up professions like medicine and law.
B.
Women did not have any choice in matters of marriage.
C.
Marriage was the only means for women to gain social mobility.
D.
Single women enjoyed better opportunities in professional life.

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

C. Marriage was the only means for women to gain social mobility.

Step-by-step explanation:

Jane Austen's time is the 1600s where women had very limited professional development. In such a very patriarchal society, women were inferior and their only chance at improving their status in life was marrying a man of certain stature; although marriages were still arranged then. They had no voice of their own and they were not even allowed to vote.