[求助]问大家一个句子

To explain this unfinished revolution in the status of women, historians have recently begun to emphasize the way a prevailing definition of femininity often determines the kinds of work allocated to women, even when such allocation is inappropriate to new conditions.

the way 后面是个什么从句，是不是在the way后面省略了一个"that"，或者是省略了一个“by which”。