Read the excerpt from the feminine mystique. “if i have only one life, let me live it as a blonde,” a larger-than-life-sized picture of a pretty, vacuous woman proclaimed from newspaper, magazine, and drugstore ads. and across america, three out of every ten women dyed their hair blonde. they ate a chalk called metrecal, instead of food, to shrink to the size of the thin young models. department-store buyers reported that american women, since 1939, had become three and four sizes smaller. the underlined terms in this excerpt most relate to which issue?

societal pressure on women to look a certain waysocietal pressure on women to be content and fulfilledsocietal pressure on women to forgo their career aspirationssocietal pressure on women to pursue a life in show business

Read this excerpt from loom and spindle. one of the first strikes of cotton-factory operatives that ever took place in this country was that in lowell, in october, 1836. when it was announced that the wages were to be cut down, great indignation was felt, and it was decided to strike, en masse. this was done. the mills were shut down, and the girls went in procession from their several corporations to the "grove" on chapel hill, and listened to "incendiary" speeches from early labor reformers. what can be inferred about the time period of the excerpt? check all that apply. a. factory workers felt frustrated by the lowering of their wages. b. workers were willing to show their displeasure through strikes. c. early efforts at strikes became chaotic and violent. d. the lowell girls were forbidden to voice objections. e. the lowell strike was followed by other labor strikes.