The electoral college was formed for the people to vote, so I would say that it is a form of indirect democracy, because the people make the decision by voting but they do not make their decision directly.
Most of the women polled during research for The Feminine Mystique were homemakers - b.
The reason why the polled women in this case were homemakers and weren't professionals or college students was due to the specificity of the sample and the times in which this research was conducted.