What was the general implication taken from the U.S. Supreme Court's statement "as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of a woman becomes the object of public interest and care in order to preserve the strength and vigor of the race" in its decision in the 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon?
A) Working women were given paid maternity leave for six weeks.
B) Feminists who believed in total equality were satisfied with the Court's ruling.
C) Working women and Progressive women developed a "blacklist" of businesses that did not support women's equality.
D) Women won shorter working hours because the Court believed they were biologically inferior to men.

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The Supreme Court's decision in Muller v. Oregon was based on the belief that women were physically weaker than men, and thus, needed special protection in the form of shorter working hours. This was not about promoting gender equality but rather about protecting women's supposed weaker physical state for the sake of future generations.

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