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It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary
effect on the lives of the people who operate the new machines and on the society into
which the machines have been introduced. For example, it has been suggested that the
employment of women in industry took them out of the household, their traditional
sphere, and fundamentally altered their position in society. In the nineteenth century,
when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician, warned that
by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Friedrich Engels, however,  that made possible the  
Historians, particularly those investigating the history of women, now seriously
question this assumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic
technological innovations as the spinning jenny, the sewing machine, the typewriter,
and the vacuum cleaner have not resulted in equally dramatic social changes in
employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolution was
largely an extension of an older pattern of employment of young, single women as
domestics. It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of
secretarial work, previously seen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from -
women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to do with the
mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it
did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the
available pool of single women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women
employers would hire.
household to the office or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead
of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women
work have changed little since before the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of
occupations by gender, lower pay for women as a group, jobs that require relatively
low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist,
has led to a major revision of the notion that technology is always inherently
revolutionary in its effects on society. Mechanization may even have slowed any
change in the traditional position of women both in the labor market and in the home.

23.  Which of the following best describes the function of the concluding sentence of
the passage?
(A) It sums up the general points concerning the mechanization of work made in
the passage as a whole.
(B) It draws a conclusion concerning the effects of the mechanization of work
which goes beyond the evidence presented in the passage as a whole.
(C) It restates the point concerning technology made in the sentence immediately
preceding it.
revision in the assessment of the impact of mechanization on society.
(E) It suggests a compromise between two seemingly contradictory views
concerning the effects of mechanization on society.