In America, paradise of women, the generally accepted theory that women have "all the rights they want" does not stand the test of impartial examination.
In America some women have all the rights they want.

Your wife and the wives of the men you associate with every day usually have all the rights they want, sometimes a few that they do not need at all.

Is the house yours?
The furniture yours?
The motor yours?
The income yours?
Are the children yours?
If you are the average fond American husband, you will return the proud answer: "No, indeed, they are _ours_." This is quite as it should be, assuming that all wives are as tenderly cherished, and as well protected as the women who live on your block.
For a whole big army of women there are often serious disadvantages connected with that word "ours." In Boston there lived a family of McEwans,--a man, his wife, and several half-grown children.

McEwan was not a very steady man.

He drank sometimes, and his earning capacity was uncertain.