Choose an appropriate word from the options to suitably fill the blank in the sentence below so that the sentence makes sense, both grammatically and contextually.
Many people still _______ to traditional ideas that men and women should behave in ways that fall into specific categories determined solely on their gender.
Since the adverb before the blank is ‘still’ which means ‘up to and including the present or the time mentioned’, the appropriate word in the blank should be ‘stick’.
The rest of the options are cancelled as they are wrong tense-wise.
Hence the correct answer is option 5.