One primary cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was
a. the cult of domesticity that sharply separated women's sphere of the home from that of men in the workplace.
b. women's primary involvement in a host of causes other than that of their own rights.
c. the higher ratio of females to males in many communities.
d. the prohibition against women's participation in religious activities.
e. the widespread belief that women were morally inferior to men.
Answer: A