Read the excerpt from The Feminine Mystique. "If I have only one life, let me live it as a blonde," a larger-than-life-sized picture of a pretty, vacuous woman
proclaimed from newspaper, magazine, and drugstore ads. And across America, three out of every ten
women dyed their hair blonde. They ate a chalk called Metrecal, instead of food, to shrink to the size of the
thin young models. Department-store buyers reported that American women, since 1939, had become three
and four sizes smaller.
The underlined terms in this excerpt most relate to which issue?
A. societal pressure on women to look a certain way
B. societal pressure on women to be content and fulfilled
C. societal pressure on women to forgo their career aspirations
D. societal pressure on women to pursue a life in show business