The Truth About WomanHartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
History
The Truth About Woman
Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
Women; Women -- History; Women -- Social and moral questions
A further examination of the sexual differences--The knowledge we
have gained does not enable us definitely to settle the
problem--The necessity of considering Nurture--Woman's
character to some extent the result of circumstance, to some
extent organic--The difficulties of the problem--Standards of
comparison--Incompleteness of our knowledge--New researches
on sex-differences--The confusion of opinions--Women and men
different, but neither superior to the other--The position of
women in society to-day--The increasing surplus of women--How
can a remedy be found?--Woman's place in the home--The
changes in modern conditions--Women and labour--The damning
struggle for life--Sweated work--Women's wages--The
marketable value of woman's sex--This the explanation of the
smallness of women's wages--The prostitute better paid than
the worker--Woman's strength as compared with man's--Are
women really the weaker sex?--Woman's work capacity equal to
man's, but different--The Spanish women--The intolerable
conditions of labour in commercial countries--Women more
deeply concerned than men--The real value of women's
work--This must be recognised by the State--The social
service of child-bearing--The primary and most important work
of women--The present revolt of women--How far is this
justifiable--A caution and some reflections.
II.--_Sexual Differences of the Mind and the Artistic Impulse in
Women_
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