What is there in her case?
If the cultivation of individual tastes and talents to a useful, productive point is out of question in the woman's business, if it is not a part of it, something is weak in the scheme.

Something is weak if the woman is or feels that she is not paying her way.

Both are not only individual rights; they are individual duties.
Moreover, she is certainly right to be dissatisfied, if, after spending twenty-five years, more or less, she is to be left in middle life, her forces spent, without interests and obligations which will occupy brain and heart to the full, without important tasks which are the logical outcome of her experience and which she must carry on in order to complete that experience.
But what is the truth about it?
What is the Business of Being a Woman?
Is it something incompatible with free and joyous development of one's talents?
Is there no place in it for economic independence?
Has it no essential relation to the world's movements?
Is it an episode which drains the forces and leaves a dreary wreck behind?
Is it something that cannot be organized into a profession of dignity, and opportunity for service and for happiness?
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