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- Women's economic position, not their sex, is responsible for the ills blamed on them
- Women's economic dependence causes unhealthy motherhood and a falling birth-rate
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American writer and feminist theorist (1860 to 1935); author of Women and Economics.
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family 8
- Women's economic dependence causes unhealthy motherhood and a falling birth-rate
- Marrying for money naturally follows from the economic dependence of women
education 2
- Women should be trained for motherhood rather than girls for catching a husband
- The private home and the dependent mother are no longer sufficient for training children