Our women, as well as our men, are members of the industrial army, and leave it only when maternal duties claim them.

The result is that most women, at one time or another of their lives, serve industrially some five or ten or fifteen years, while those who have no children fill out the full term." "A woman does not, then, necessarily leave the industrial service on marriage ?" I queried.
"No more than a man," replied the doctor.

"Why on earth should she?
Married women have no housekeeping responsibilities now, you know, and a husband is not a baby that he should be cared for." "It was thought one of the most grievous features of our civilization that we required so much toil from women," I said; "but it seems to me you get more out of them than we did." Dr.Leete laughed.

"Indeed we do, just as we do out of our men.

Yet the women of this age are very happy, and those of the nineteenth century, unless contemporary references greatly mislead us, were very miserable.
The reason that women nowadays are so much more efficient colaborers with the men, and at the same time are so happy, is that, in regard to their work as well as men's, we follow the principle of providing every one the kind of occupation he or she is best adapted to.