Already they have evolved a group opinion and a group ideal.
And this brings me to my reason for believing that society will soon be compelled to make a serious survey of the opinions and ideals of women.
As far as these have found collective expressions, it is evident that they differ very radically from accepted opinions and ideals of men.

As a matter of fact, it is inevitable that this should be so.

Back of the differences between the masculine and the feminine ideal lie centuries of different habits, different duties, different ambitions, different opportunities, different rewards.
I shall not here attempt to outline what the differences have been or why they have existed.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in _Women and Economics_, did this before me,--did it so well that it need never be done again.

I merely wish to point out that different habits of action necessarily result, after long centuries, in different habits of thought.