Sentence Correction

Hi Community,
Please see my question below:

That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of landmark in the industry than her being a woman.

a. her being a woman
b. being a woman is
c. her womanhood
d. that she was a woman
e. that she is a woman

correct ac: "e"

Is the reason for E as a correct ac b/c we need some sort of pronoun or preposition after "than" as we see after "more"?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi NYC23,

Below is my reasoning...

"Being" refers to "in the state of". The sentence does not seem to imply this. The sentence says, 'She is a woman'....not 'in the state of woman'.

Eliminate A,B - Refers to a State
C - is similar to A,B. It refers to a state.
D - Was is incorrect
E - Bingo...no tense error and reflects the intended meaning.

Regards
HenryJEJO

"That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position" should be parallel to the one that follows "than".

"that she is a woman" is parallel to "that the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position".. Hence, option e is correct.

If we "invert" the sentence, perhaps it would be easier to comprehend the parallelism:

It is more of a landmark that X happened than that Y happened.