Most of the women polled during research for The Feminine Mystique were

a. college students.

c. factory workers.

b. homemakers.

d. professionals.

Most of the women polled during research for The Feminine Mystique were homemakers - b.

The reason why the polled women in this case were homemakers and weren't professionals or college students was due to the specificity of the sample and the times in which this research was conducted.