Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Socia — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Not woman but the condition of woman has always been a doorway of evil The sexuo economic relation has debarred her from the social activities in which and in which alone are developed the social virtues She was not allowed to acquire the qualities needed in our racial advance and in her position of arrested development she has maintained the virtues and the vices of the period of human evolution at which she was imprisoned At a period of isolated economic activity mere animal individualism at a period when social ties ceased with the ties of blood woman was cut off from personal activity in social economics and confined to the functional activities of her sex