The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!
Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol read more
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of read more
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
