From the excerpt and the historical context, one can understand that the league of women is constituted by wome from all sorts of different backgrounds, some are "ladies", meaning married women, like Mary Dreier, while others are working class women, like Leonora O'Reilly. This means that <em>the support of weathy league women contributed to the succesful outcome of the female workers' strike. </em>The first option is the right answer.
Curlys wife was very controlled by the men, she wasn’t able to be her own person either. it changed throughout the book by the events that took place and her realizing her worth and taking it back.
