Reading "I Knew America Was Not Ready for a Woman

Reading "I Knew America Was Not Ready for a Woman to Be President" Angela N. Gist
-In "I Knew America Was Not Ready for a Woman to Be President," Angela N. Gist argues that Americans will have to be prepared to struggle to elect a female president because

A) Electing an African American man and then a woman to the presidency threatened the status quo in a ways that were alarming to many mainstream Americans
B) The social identity hierarchy of the presidency is gendered as male
C) Social progress is almost always followed by backlash in the U.S.
D) Historical patterns seem to indicate as much
E) Both (a) and (b)
F) Both (c) and (d)
G) All of the above
H) None of the above