But In This I Wrong The Woman - Even The American
Woman.
It is not she who desires it, but her philanthropical
philosophical friends who desire it for her.
If work were more equally divided between the sexes, some women
would, of course, receive more of the good things of the world.
But women generally would not do so. The tendency, then, would be
to force young women out upon their own exertions. Fathers would
soon learn to think that their daughters should be no more
dependent on them than their sons; men would expect their wives to
work at their own trades; brothers would be taught to think it hard
that their sisters should lean on them, and thus women, driven upon
their own resources, would hardly fare better than they do at
present.
After all it is a question of money, and a contest for that power
and influence which money gives. At present, men have the position
of the Lower House of Parliament - they have to do the harder work,
but they hold the purse. Even in England there has grown up a
feeling that the old law of the land gives a married man too much
power over the joint pecuniary resources of him and his wife, and
in America this feeling is much stronger, and the old law has been
modified. Why should a married woman be able to possess nothing?
And if such be the law of the land, is it worth a woman's while to
marry and put herself in such a position?
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