That women have the ability as well as the hearty desire to contribute in this way to the progress and welfare of the human race, needs no further explanation. It is for the men to accept and encourage their help and to utilize it to the fullest extent. The beneficial result of such co-operation can not be doubted. Women with their intuitive judgment, spiritual insight and knowledge of the needs of women, children, public education, sanitation, philanthropy, etc., will become a most important factor in the vast task of human betterment. And man, working with woman side by side in these noble endeavors, will not only profit, but learn that nature has given him nothing more sublime than woman. [Illustration] CONTENTS. Women During the Remote Past. Primeval Man, His Origin and Severe Struggle for Existence 7 The Division of Labor and Responsibilities 14 Women as Objects or Rape, Barter and Religious Sacrifice 22 Women During the Ages of Antiquity. Women in Babylonia 29 Woman’s Status Among the Hebrews 36 Woman’s Status Among the Parsee and Hindoo 39 Woman in China and Japan 43 Woman Among the Egyptians 46 Woman Among the Greeks 50 Woman Among the Romans 56 Woman’s Position Among the Germanic Nations 65 Woman Among the Early Christians 70 Woman Among the Mohammedans 74 Women During the Middle Ages. Women During the Middle Ages 81 The Glorious Time of the Renaissance 93 The Darkest Chapter in Woman’s History 98