ABSTRACT
In ~oth these views there is, plainly, a certain admixture of what used to be called idealisation, ·and is called, in contemporary jargon, " wishful thinking ". The first view idealises work, and leaves out the miserably inadequate wages earned. The second view idealises conditions irt the average home-again, by leaving out the inadequate wages on which it is sustained. Although each is a trifle inclined to moralise about the matter, they agree in asserting a woman's right to make her own free choice. They could, if they chose, go on to agree -in stating that few women have any such opportunity in fact. They could show with force and point, too, that she is apt to come 9ff second-best, all along the line. Educational chances, in most families, go to boys rather than girls. Fewer girls get secondary schooling ; fewer go to college. Parents take a more responsible view, when it comes to employment, of the future of their sons than of their .daughters. Whether or no this is covered by the view that girls will, anyhow, '' marry in the end", the fact remains. Freedom of choice is certainly. very straitly limited.
