What inference can be drawn about the time period of the excerpt?

1- The changing workforce transformed society’s rules.
2- Factories improved local economies with new products.
3- Women with factory experience found other jobs easily.
4- Married women preferred factory work to homemaking.

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment