It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to describe the views of the scholars mentio...

Emil-Kunkin on September 27 at 01:59AM

The scholars in question accept that there was a decline in living standards for women between the colonial period and the 19th century, but they reject or question the idea that the colonial period was a golden age. There is somewhat of a paradox, they think that things got worse, but reject the idea that things were good in the earlier period.