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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 67
can be best measured by considering their at-
titude towards the greatest question of the
day—I mean the social question.
The old advocates of woman’s rights
maintain that the adult woman must have the
same right as the adult man to " protect " her-
self, and they ask why the woman is hindered
from working because she is married, or be-
cause she has children. Protective legislation
drives woman from the factories and work-
shops ; and this legislation is very far, they tell
us, from meriting the support of women.
Women, on the contrary, they say, should
demand the same protective legislation for wo-
men as for men. They ask for technical in-
struction and an extended field of work for
women.
This whole argument is quite logical from
the point of view that limitation of woman’s
labour is opposed to one of the foremost prin-
ciples of our time,— the self-determination of
the individual. This implies the right of the
adult woman, as well as the adult man, to
choose her own work. Privileges on the
ground of sex only hinder the woman from
being put on an equality with man before the
law.
But all these arguments are based on the
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