![]() It cannot be settled by loud slogans or hard-and-fast assertions like "a woman is as good as a man"-or "woman's place is the home"-or "women ought not to take men's jobs." The minute one makes such assertions, one finds one has to qualify them. The question of "sex-equality" is, like all questions affecting human relationships, delicate and complicated. I do not know that it is very easy to explain, without offence or risk of misunderstanding, exactly what I do mean, but I will try. As a result I was, perhaps not unnaturally, invited to explain myself. In fact, I think I went so far as to say that, under present conditions, an aggressive feminism might do more harm than good. ![]() I replied-a little irritably, I am afraid-that I was not sure I wanted to "identify myself," as the phrase goes, with feminism, and that the time for "feminism," in the old-fashioned sense of the word, had gone past. When I was asked to come and speak to you, your Secretary made the suggestion that she thought I must be interested in the feminist movement.
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