[The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Business of Being a Woman CHAPTER I 20/26
And she has this advantage: custom makes it cowardly for a man to attempt to demonstrate that woman is a tyrant--it laughs and applauds woman's attempt to fix the charge on man. It gives her a definite program of relief.
To attack life as man does: to secure the same kind of training, enter a trade or profession where she can support herself, mingle with the crowd as he does, get into politics--that she assumes to be the practical way of curing the inferiority of position and of powers which she is willing to admit, even willing to demonstrate.
That a man's life may not be altogether satisfactory, she declines to believe.
The uneasy woman has always taken it for granted that man is happier than woman.
It is an assumption which is at least discussible. Her program, too, has the immense advantage of including all that the new order of things in this country, instituted by the Revolution, made imperative for women--the schooling, the liberty of action, the independent pocket book.
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