Multiple choice

In what context has the phrase 'double standards' (line 5) been used in the passage?

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            A woman’s role has been circumscribed within a narrow
            domain where she is in just the   lead role of a wife and a
            mother. Her individuality remains secluded. Comparatively
            no man’s mission is to be a father or a husband alone. Why
(5)        does the society have such double standards? If both sexes
            share the responsibility of upbringing their children why
            woman alone is assigned to play the key role? She is
            considered menial to a man, though not morally or legally.
            Her supreme duty is to love, marry and rear children.
(10)      There are many such females who do not get all this in
            succession, but that does not declare a woman’s defeat in
            her individuality. The growing sensationalism has excited the
            issue further. Literature and media all portray love so passionately
            and woman at the central position of this emotion. This leads to
(15)      an exaggeration of the sentiment and display of feminism. A
            life, hence, devoid of love seems a failure and deprivation of
            marriage a shortcoming. But is it that the emotion (love) we
            recall so often present in all the marriages?

  1. Society considering women as an epitome of power and on the other hand denying power to dominate.

  2. Society accepting men and women as equal but endorsing man's supremacy for the upbringing of the progeny.

  3. Society making family relations an 'end' for the lady and 'means' for the man.

  4. Society promising equal freedom to sexes but denying it to women in many cases.

  5. Society considering 'love' to be common feeling between a man and a woman but exaggerating the sentiment as 'feminine'.

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Explanation

Here the phrase 'double standards' has been used when talking of family ties. A woman's life revolves around husband and children but a man in no way declares his mission to be a husband and father alone, though society asserts family ties to be a shared responsibility.