Read this passage from an argument written in 1911 by a California State Senator, J. B. Stanford. What would be a good way to describe the claim the Senator is making?

The men are able to run the government and take care of the women. Do women have to vote in order to receive the protection of man? Why, men have gone to war, endured every privation and death itself in defense of woman. To man, woman is the dearest creature on earth, and there is no extreme to which he would not go for his mother or sister. By keeping woman in her exalted position man can be induced to do more for her than he could by having her mix up in affairs that will cause him to lose respect and regard for her. Woman does not have to vote to secure her rights. Man will go to any extreme to protect and elevate her now. As long as woman is woman and keeps her place she will get more protection and more consideration than man gets. When she abdicates her throne she throws down the scepter of her power and loses her influence.


Senator Stanford describes the sacrifices that women are willing to make in order to please their men.


Senator Stanford admits that women are at the mercy of men and have no real power.


Senator Stanford argues that women will keep power as long as they keep their place.


Senator Stanford suggests that women need to vote in order to receive the protection of the government.