LSAT Practice Test 13

Historian: Some scholars contend that the guild records of the medieval city of Varenne understate the number of women in its textile trade, because the records list only guild members, and many women supposedly worked under a male relative’s membership. But Varenne’s tax rolls, which list every household and its sources of income, show women heading roughly the same proportion of textile-producing households as the guild records show women making up among textile guild members. So the guild records do not substantially understate women’s participation in Varenne’s textile trade.