The passage supports which of the following statements about the early mill owners mentioned in the second paragraph？
A. They hoped that by creating relatively unattractive “female” jobs they would discourage women from losing interest in marriage and family life.
B. They sought to increase the size of the available labor force as a means to keep men’s to keep men’s wages low.
C. They argued that women were inherently suited to do well in particular kinds of factory work.
D. They thought that factory work bettered the condition of women by emancipating them from dependence on income earned by men.
E. They felt guilty about disturbing the traditional division of labor in family.
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