Answer:
an increase in the number of women enrolling in professional schools. a significant increase in the number of women in the Senate. the end of the wage gap between men and women.
Explanation:
It was a mixture of various reasons, although for the Spanish and Portuguese it was a question of reaching India for spice trades after the embargo instated on them by the Ottoman Turks.
The Portuguese went around Africa, and the Spanish tried sailing west across the barren ocean, and accidentally discovered America through Columbus.