Question

Protestant leaders emphasized that the primary role of women was to be wives and mothers, and they left few other alternatives for women because they had shut down these Catholic institutions, in which women had enjoyed a significant amount of power and responsibility. What are these Catholic institutions?

A) Convents
B) Universities
C) Monasteries
D) Cathedrals

Answer 1

Convents were the Catholic institutions that provided power and responsibility to women before the Protestant Reformation.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Catholic institutions that provided power and responsibility to women before the Protestant Reformation are convents. Convents were communal institutions where women could live a religious life separate from the male-dominated society. They allowed women to have a role in society that was not dependent on their relationship to a father or husband, and some women even enjoyed significant influence as abbesses.