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94 The Century of the Child
telegraph offices, should often be driven to
hysteria, insanity, and suicide.
The advocates of women’s rights are not
blind to all these incongruities. They ask
equal salaries for men and women, and claim,
often with justice, and often without, that wo-
men’s work is too inadequately compensated.
But they do not see that they have contributed
to the evil by constantly urging women to
work in all possible occupations, and that a
low rate of wages and an overcrowding of all
fields of labour is the result. It is far more
necessary to pay attention to these things
than to open up new fields of labour to women,
if their vital energy is not to be dried up, if
they are not to lose their youthful freshness
and attractiveness prematurely, and their pos-
sibilities for development and happiness as hu-
man beings, wives, and mothers.
A loss of freedom accomplished gradually,
this is, on the whole, the sad result of the so-
called emancipation of women in our century,
if the subject is looked at broadly, apart from
the few thousand women of the upper classes
in good paying positions. For several dec-
ades, I have felt strongly against the import-
ance given by the advocates of women’s rights
to the work of women outside of the home, for
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