Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the explanation provided by the human capital theory for women's concentration in certain occupations in seventeenth-century Florence?

Women were unlikely to work outside the home even in occupations whose hours were flexible enough to allow women to accommodate domestic tasks as well as paid labour.

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Parents were less likely to teach occupational skills to their daughters than they were to their sons.

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Women's participation in the Florentine paid labour force grew steadily throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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The vast majority of female weavers in the Florentine wool industry had children.

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Few women worked as weavers in the Florentine silk industry, which was devoted to making cloths that required a high degree of skill to
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The correct option is A Women were unlikely to work outside the home even in occupations whose hours were flexible enough to allow women to accommodate domestic tasks as well as paid labour.
The argument given in the passage is, since women were predominantly preferred for jobs at home as they were childbearing. Option (a) weakens the argument, as if women were given flexible working hours, then they would have been preferred for factory or non home works. Hence option (a) is the answer.

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