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Neither a borrower nor a Shmooper be... Actually, we take that back. Be a Shmooper.

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According to the information given in Passage 2, why was the designation "LPC," while gender-neutral

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in theory, not actually gender-neutral in practice?

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And here are the potential answers...

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This question doesn't point us to a specific line for context, but we can use the clues

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of "gender-neutral" and "in practice" to figure out where to look.

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Following this trail of bread crumbs leads us to the second paragraph, which tells us

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to look at the issue of "LPC."

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The last paragraph explains how "LPC" affected women disproportionately. Lines 80-84, in

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particular, fill us in on how officials assumed that women wouldn't be able to support themselves.

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Now we're armed and ready to eliminate the answer choices that don't fit this idea.

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(A), (C), and (D) are easy to cut from the list, as none of them are justified in any

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way by the text. The passage does talk about how even some

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women who'd done skilled labor back in their own country were refused entry, but it doesn't

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say that they wouldn't have been able to make it in the U.S.

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In fact, the paragraph argues that assuming these skilled women couldn't make the cut

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was unfair on the part of U.S. officials.

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Choice (B) hits the nail on the head by calling out the assumptions of U.S. officials that

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barred many women from the country. (B) is the correct answer.

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