, as well as women's inferior land rights and lesser involvement in trade, made women more dependent on men than was generally the case in Ghana. 5However, since age apparently remained the overriding principle of social organization in central Kenya, some senior women had much authority. 6Thus, Robertson revised her hypothesis somewhat, arguing that in determining authority in precolonial Africa age was a primary principle that superseded gender to varying degrees depending on the situation.

Q6 

The author of the passage mentions the status of age as a principle of social organization in precolonial central Kenya in lines 24-26(highlight) most likely in order to

A) indicate that women's dependence on men in precolonial Kenya was not absolute

B) contrast the situation of senior women to that of less senior women in precolonial Kenyan society

C) differentiate between the status and authority of precolonial Kenyan women and that of precolonial Ghanaian women