H It helps companies to produce poor quality
 J It allows companies to reduce competition.
 3 How did the role of women change during the Gilded Age?
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 A Women focused increasingly on work in the home as mothers and caretakers.
 B Working-class women began to advocate for complete economic equality with men.
 C Middle-class women increasingly became active as social reformers.
 D Women increasingly entered the workplace, especially in professional fields.
 Lesson 1.2 The Gilded Age
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 4 This image was created in the early 1880s.