Directions: The following passage is followed by a question with five options. Choose the best option.

During the last twenty years, eleven percent of those who received certification to practice in a particular profession were women and all those who received certification during those years obtained full time positions. Nevertheless, only five percent of the full-time positions in this profession are currently held by women. Which of the following, if true, could explain the difference in the percentage mentioned in the passage above?

It was easier to obtain certification twenty years ago than it currently is.

A majority of those currently in the profession were hired more than twenty years ago, when virtually every one in the profession was male.

The women certified in the last twenty years have tended to choose different specialties within the profession than the men have tended to choose.

Male and female members of the profession have had equal pay scales for the past twenty years.

More women than men have had to resettle after marriage, at other locations and in other professions.