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92 The Century of the Child
of herself. Perhaps they will then understand
that individualism, apart from the feeling of
solidarity, leads to social conflict, class against
class, sex against sex, unmarried against mar-
ried, young against old. So it will be seen
that only in the transformation of the whole
of society can woman attain her full rights
without impairing, through her advance, the
rights of others.
The sooner the women’s rights party under-
stands this, the better. Instead of fighting
protective legislation, they should advocate it;
instead of regarding unions and strikes with
disfavour, they should help labouring women
to organise unions, and support strikes where
strikes are justified.
Our century, which has opened up to wo-
men new fields of labour, has made life very
hard for her by forcing her in the competitive
struggle. As wives, as married or unmarried
mothers, as divorced women, as widows, wo-
men often not only have the burden of their
own support to bear, but they have frequently
the role of guardian of a family, working for
an invalid or intemperate husband; for child-
ren, or sisters, or aged parents. These women,
whether they belong to those who labour with
the brain or with the hand, are worn out, partly
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