ABSTRACT
The constant spectacle of men working at tasks which every woman knows she could easily undertake carries much more conviction than the best-worded essay on the inferiority of men or the equality of the sexes. Let any one reflect, for instance, on such apparently obvious results of the New Woman movement as the claim of sex-equality and the decline of domesticity among modern women, and consider the difficulty of determining how much of both anteceded the movement by many scores of years, and actually favored its progress. Both the sex-equality and the indifference to domesticity were tacitly assumed over a hundred and eighty years ago by our ancestors, who inaugurated the Industrial Revolution and who imposed their hard credo in practice on the women of civilized nations by sheer force.
