ABSTRACT
Granting a certain measure of inferiority, there is much more to be ascertained before a practical conclusion can be drawn regarding the social position to be assigned to the female sex. Some may put the supposed inferiority as a good reason why woman’s social position should always remain just as it happens at present to be. Others may argue that improvement is desirable, but that there are many departments of practical life and many intellectual pursuits from which woman must always be excluded. The superior intelligence of the female sex in France affords an illustration of the favourable influences exercised on woman by industrial employment. Both in middle and in lower ranks the general direction of domestic economy falls almost entirely to woman. The material and moral government of household falls to woman. She has to arrange matters for each day, so that there may be a time for everything, and that everything may be in its place.
