In their struggle for equal treatment, women, unlike blacks, had to deal with a legal tradition that
A. claimed to be protecting them.
B. regarded them as chattel.
C. had always treated them as equal in theory.
D. had consistently ignored them.
E. had accorded them special rights and responsibilities.
Answer: A
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