Question

Which of the following was true of people moving to suburbs and purchasing automobiles?

a. Women were allowed to drive and thereby gained more freedom.
b. It was a lifestyle only the wealthy could afford.
c. Women were left isolated all day as men took the cars to work in the city.
d. Cities could not keep up with road construction in places outside the city.

Answer 1

c. Women were left isolated all day as men took the cars to work in the city.

Explanation: Suburbanization plus the automobile often produced one-car households where men drove to jobs in the city, leaving wives at home in outlying residential areas; this reinforced gendered separation and isolation for many suburban women.