She is as fiercely jealous of interference in it as she would be if it were a child.

She resents suggestions and change.

It is hers, a personal thing to which she clings as if it were a living being.

That attitude is the chief reason why working with women in the development of great undertakings is as difficult as cooeperating with them in the rearing of a family.

It is also a reason why they rarely rise to the first rank.