Read this excerpt from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf:Nick Greene, I thought, remembering the story I had made about Shakespeare's sister, said that a woman acting put him in mind of a dog dancing. Johnson repeated the phrase two hundred years later of women preaching. And here, I said, opening a book about music, we have the very words used again in this year of grace, 1928, of women who try to write music. 'Of Mlle. Germaine Tailleferre one can only repeat Dr Johnson's dictum. . . . "Sir, a woman's composing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all."

Which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt helps to develop?

A. Women had faced negative attitudes in Shakespeare's time, but in Woolf's time, these attitudes had improved.
B. Women have always faced negative attitudes in music and painting but not in literature or acting.
C. Women have always faced negative attitudes in jobs that were traditionally dominated by men.
D. Women have faced negative attitudes in some areas, but other areas have always been open to them