This question is missing the passage from the speech. I've found the complete question online. It is the following:
Read this following excerpt from "What I Hope to Leave Behind."
Most women dream first of a happy family. The instinct for reproduction is inborn in most of us. If we have known happy homes, we want to reproduce the same type of thing we have had; and even though we may always be critical of some things in our past, time nearly always puts a halo around even a few of the disagreeable things, and most women dream, as they rock their babies or busy themselves in household tasks, that their daughters will do the same things someday.
This selection suggests that when Eleanor Roosevelt gave her speech, most women
worked in the home.
had many children.
wanted new careers.
were critical of the past.
Answer:
The selection suggests that most women:
A. worked in the home.
Explanation:
<u>The excerpt from the speech by Eleanor Roosevelt that we are analyzing here shows that, at the time when the speech was given, most women worked in the home. Roosevelt speaks of household chores, of taking care of babies, or wishing and working for a happy home. This was not a time when most women had jobs. In general, men were providers, while women stayed home taking care of their children and their houses.</u> Roosevelt mentions that, even if hardships took place in the past, women in general seem to want to reproduce what they saw at their homes growing up, and also seem to wish the same for their daughters. Of course, things have changed greatly since then, and this speech must be analyzed while taking into consideration its historical and social context.
