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The Business of Being a Woman

CHAPTER II
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In the last sixty or seventy years tens of thousands of women have been students in American universities, colleges, and technical schools, taking there the same training as men.

In the last twenty years the annual crescendo of numbers has been amazing; over ten thousand at the beginning of the period, over fifty-two thousand at the end.

Over eight thousand degrees were given to women in 1910, nearly half as many as were given to men.

Fully four fifths of these women students and graduates have worked side by side with men in schools which served both equally.
Here, then, is a great mass of experience from which it would seem that we ought to be able to say precisely how the intellects of the two sexes act and react under the stimulus of serious study, to decide definitely whether their attack on problems is the same, whether they come out the same.

Nevertheless, he would be a rash observer who would pretend to lay down hard-and-fast generalizations.


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