How Did Discrimination Against Women Hurt Developing Countries' Efforts to Combat

How did discrimination against women hurt developing countries' efforts to combat poverty at the end of the twentieth century?

A) Customs preventing women from participating in the marketplace limited the opportunities for economic transactions in these countries.
B) Imbalances in the numbers of men and women in the population reduced the number of productive households below what it ideally would have been.
C) The lack of effective antidiscrimination laws drove wages down throughout these countries' workforces.
D) Women's lack of access to education and high rates of illiteracy limited their abilities to become effective economic actors.