Consider the following impacts of reform movements and find the odd o…

The correct answer is Option (2) → Women were educated but were asked to confine themselves to kitchen

Option (1) First school for women was opened — An impact of the reform movements (Incorrect). The idea of female education was debated intensely, and it was the social reformer Jotiba Phule who opened the first school for women in Pune.

Option (2) Women were educated but were asked to confine themselves to kitchen — The odd one out (Correct). The reformers argued for women’s education because for a society to progress women have to be educated, and their movements gave women new roles. Keeping educated women in the kitchen runs against these impacts; it is the old restriction the reformers worked to remove.

Option (3) New roles of mothers and daughters emerged — An impact of the reform movements (Incorrect). New ideas of homemaking and marriage and new roles for mothers and daughters emerged with the reform movements.

Option (4) It has been argued the progress of society is not possible without women's education — An impact of the reform movements (Incorrect). Reformers argued that for a society to progress women have to be educated.