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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 73
is just this that should make the "obliga-
tory " egoism of the modern working woman
appear so terrible to those who are busied with
the emancipation of woman.
To talk of the freedom of woman, of her
individual right to control her actions, when
she works like a beast of burden to reach a
minimum of existence, to keep from dying
of starvation, to talk of the freedom of wo-
men where conditions are such that the free
choice of work, for man as well as for woman,
is an empty phrase—to put it mildly, it is
senseless. I will throw some light on the re-
sults of freedom by the following illustration:
When women in England worked in white
lead factories, seventy-seven women were ex-
amined in one factory. It appeared in the
time covered by the investigation that there
were among this number ninety miscarriages,
twenty-seven cases of still-born children; be-
side, forty young children died of convulsions
produced by the poisoning of their mothers.
The effects of this occupation were most harm-
ful in the case of women from eighteen to
twenty-three years of age. Lameness, blind-
ness, and other infirmities resulted from this
kind of work.
An English doctor has shown from exact
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