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?
A. Women were unlikely to work outside the home even in occupations whose hourse were flexible enough to allow women to accommodate domestic tasks as well as paid labor.
B. Parents were less likely to teach occupational skills to their daughters than they were to their sons.
C. Women’s participation in the Florentine paid labor force grew steadily throughout the xisteenth and seventeenth centuries.
D. The vast amjority of female weavers in the Florenine wool industry had children.
E. Few women worked as weavers in the Florentine silk industry, which was devoted to making cloths that requried a high degree of skill to produce.