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Earl Barnes. Woman in Modern Society
Woman in Modern Society
Table of Contents
What it Means to be a Woman
II
Woman's Heritage
III
Women in Education
IV
The Feminizing of Culture
V
The Economic Independence of Women
VI
Women in Industry
VII
The Meaning of Political Life
VIII
Woman's Relation to Political Life
IX
The Modern Family
X
Family Life as a Vocation
XI
Conclusion
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Earl Barnes
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Along with these fixed qualities of action, women have a tendency to indirection when they advance. We say they have diplomacy, tact and coquetry, while man is more direct and bald in his methods. Of course, one easily understands how these qualities may have arisen, since "fraud is the force of weak natures," and woman has always been driven to supplement her weakness with tact, from the days of Jael and Delilah down to the present day adventuress.
These qualities of mind naturally drive women to literary interests which are concrete, personal and emotional. Men turn more easily than women to the abstract generalizations of science. Of course, there are marked exceptions to these general statements, in both sexes. Madame Curie, who was recently a candidate for the honors of the French Academy, and who, in 1911, was given the Nobel prize for her distinguished services to chemistry, is but one of many women who are famous to-day in the world of science. Still the private life of these women, as in the case of Sónya Kovalévsky, seems to bear out our general conclusion. Men, on the other hand, as milliners and editors of ladies' journals, show marked skill in catering to women's tastes; but on the whole the differences indicated seem important and widely diffused.
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