Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry,

Q 43 was little tricky.

The author's reasoning is that, Women's role as child bearing reduced available opportunities for them to get trained and thus they were paid less because of low skills.

Option A says - Even if this reason were not true and there were some occupations whose hours were flexible enough to allow women to accommodate domestic tasks as well as paid labor, women were unlikely to work outside.

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