The American housewife—freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth and the illnesses of her grandmother.

Which of the following statements best explains the meaning of this excerpt from Betty Friedan’s “The Problem That Has No Name”?

Housewives should be happy that their grandparents are no longer around to give them diseases.
Women no longer have to die in childbirth or do hard housework thanks to twentieth-century advances.
There are now medicines that can improve a woman’s mood so that she enjoys housework and childbirth.
Doctors have advanced in medicine to the point where nothing that a woman does has to be a painful experience.