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An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the
same work is that women are only temporarily in industry.

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.

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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?”