Are Women People? - A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller
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Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New
York have been more than ten years in the service, while only twenty-six per cent of the men teachers have served as long. * * * * * The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and financial assistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order "to alleviate the anxiety of husbands at the front." How strange this would sound: "The Bundesrath has decided to furnish medical assistance to the wounded at the front, in order to alleviate the anxiety of wives and mothers at home." When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is: "Will it benefit men?" When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: "Will it benefit men?" Why We Oppose Votes for Men 1. Because man's place is the armory. 2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it. |
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