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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 77
mothers, mean the most crying injury, not
only to children, but to women themselves.
For the demand of equality, where nature has
made inequality, brings about the injury of
the weaker factor. Equality is not justice.
Often it is just the opposite, the most abso-
lute injustice.
The strongest reasoning will not convince
those advocates of women’s rights who discuss
woman’s labour from the old-fashioned level
of individualism, unaffected by the social feel-
ing of solidarity, which is the solution offered
by our age. But fortunately protective legis-
lation does not depend on the women who
advocate the rights of women. The working-
men’s movement, aided by women and men
of all classes who are active in it, will carry
through this legislation. The movement for
the normal working day is steadily gaining
ground.
Experience has shown that, because of the
greater intensity of the work done, just as
much can be accomplished in a shorter as in a
longer time. The first concern has been the
work of children and of younger adults. The
effect of factory life on the health of women
themselves, as well as on their children, has
excited general attention. In England first,
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