What did Higginbotham and Weber discover about women from working-class backgrounds who now occupied professional, managerial, and administrative positions in Memphis?

A) They were encouraged by their parents to get an education.
B) They were in the top five percent of their graduating class.
C) They were the eldest child in the family.
D) They married into social classes higher than their own.


A

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