A) Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
B) Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes.
C) It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation - being low class and being female - that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
D) A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
E) Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.
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