GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: The absence from business and financial records of the nineteenth cent

The absence from business and financial records of the nineteenth century of statistics about women leave us with no record of the jobs that were performed by women and how they survived economically.

A) from business and financial records of the nineteenth century of statistics about women leave us with no record of the jobs that were performed by women and -"leave" does not go agree with "absence".. we need "leaves"
B) from business and financial records of statistics
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