Read the passage. Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown. . . .

But when all artificial trammels are removed, and women are recognized as individuals, responsible for their own environments, thoroughly educated for all the positions in life they may be called to fill; with all the resources in themselves that liberal though and broad culture can give; guided by their own conscience an judgment; trained to self-protection by a healthy development of the muscular system and skill in the use of weapons of defense, and stimulated to self-support by the knowledge of the business world and the pleasure that pecuniary independence must ever give; when women are trained in this way they will, in a measure, be fitted for those hours of solitude that come alike to all, whether prepared or otherwise. As in our extremity we must depend on ourselves, the dictates of wisdom point of complete individual development.

–"Solitude of Self” address,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
1892

The expansion of higher-education opportunities for women

A) was enabled by a class-action lawsuit by a group of female students petitioning for education opportunities equal to men’s.
B) happened as a result of the passage of a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote and the expectation that they should be educated enough to do so.
C) was widely opposed in most parts of the country, causing women seeking an education to move to more progressive states.
D) coincided with the expansion of higher-education opportunities for African Americans, as African American colleges were among the first to admit women.