An academically proficient woman of working-class background goes to university on financially plentiful scholarships and while there she meets her future partner,who is connected to the upper echelons of Canada's Foreign Service.They marry and she eventually becomes a senior government bureaucrat.According to the text,how has her education helped her career?

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The text suggests that the woman's education opened up social networks that enhanced her career opportunities, and that her partner's connections to the upper echelons of the Foreign Service likely also played a role. While there may have been some advantage to her educational qualifications in overcoming gender stigma, and the scholarships she received certainly helped to level the playing field, the text does not emphasize these factors as strongly as it does the social networks and connections that came with her university education. The text does not mention whether or not meritocracy had a role in this case.

An Academically Proficient Woman of Working-Class Background Goes to University