What Explains the Predominance of Women Among Those Accused of Witchcraft

What explains the predominance of women among those accused of witchcraft in Europe and North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

A) The rising number of women's social groups formed to pursue political rights led to a fear of covens.
B) A series of plague-like illnesses swept through Europe and North America, afflicting mainly men, which led people to believe that witches were causing them.
C) Accusers tended to single out the poorest and most socially marginal people in their community (i.e., elderly spinsters and widows) , who were thought to be seeking revenge on the wealthy.
D) The rise in infant and child mortality due to the severe famines of the era was blamed on jealous childless women.