"Women have many careers,but only one vocation-motherhood… It is for woman as mother,actual or vicarious,to restore emotional security in our insecure world… Today,however,the duties of the homemaker have become so depreciated that many women feel impelled to work outside the home-even when it is not economically necessary-in order to retain the respect of the community… What ails these women who reject their children? Surface influences of a competitive,materialistic world have atrophied their emotions and destroyed their instinctive reactions."
Agnes Meyer,"Women Aren't Men," Reader's Digest,1950
-Which of the following developments would most directly challenge the perspective of this passage?

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The rise in the number of working women challenges the perspective of the passage that a woman's only true vocation is motherhood and that working outside the home is only done to retain the respect of society. The passage implies that women who choose to work instead of being stay-at-home mothers lack emotional security and have had their instinctive reactions destroyed by the materialistic world, but the increasing number of women working shows that many women are choosing to pursue careers and find fulfillment outside of motherhood.

"Women Have Many Careers,but Only One Vocation-Motherhood… It Is for Woman