Hennessy concludes that the shift in welfare policy to require single mothers to work in order to receive assistance is ______.

a. appropriate and matching the women’s desires be productive members of society
b. contributing the growing inequality and reinforcing oppression of and among women
c. reckless by forcing women into the workplace
d. contributing to the United States’ crisis of care


b. contributing the growing inequality and reinforcing oppression of and among women

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