Read the excerpt from The Feminine Mystique . “If I have only one life, let me live it as a blonde,” a larger-than-life-sized picture of a pretty , vacuous woman proclaimed from newspaper, magazine, and drugstore ads. And across America, three out of every ten women dyed their hair blonde . They ate a chalk called Metrecal, instead of food, to shrink to the size of the thin young models . Department-store buyers reported that American women, since 1939, had become three and four sizes smaller . The underlined terms in this excerpt most relate to which issue?
Answer
A
societal pressure on women to look a certain way
B
societal pressure on women to forgo their career aspirations
C
societal pressure on women to pursue a life in show business
D
societal pressure on women to be content and fulfilled
Explanation
The excerpt describes women dyeing their hair blonde and eating a chalk-based product to become thinner. These examples show pressure to match a particular ideal of beauty and body size. Therefore, the issue is societal pressure on women to look a certain way.
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