Loose thinking by those who seek to influence public opinion has aggravated the trouble.

They start with the idea that she is a parasite--does not pay her way.

"Men hunt, fish, keep the cattle, or raise corn," says a popular writer, "for women to eat the game, the fish, the meat, and the corn." The inference is that the men alone render useful service.

But neither man nor woman eats of these things until the woman has prepared them.

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.