The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1898
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    284/320 (page 266)
    CHAPTER XI The Profession of Maternity The remarkable progress of the higher education of women is a matter of everyday comment. Notwith- standing the opposition which every comparatively new movement naturally meets, the belief in it has grown in every direction ; so that it is common to find families where the young women have had the same training as their brothers, where, moreover, they have shown so good an intellectual receptivity that the higher education of women, as is claimed by its adherents, has thoroughly justified itself. Besides this, so many women have entered professional callings of all kinds, that the old-time claim of difference in intellectual function between them and men has seemingly been forced out of existence. In addition, one meets not only women doctors, women lawyers, architects and preachers, but also those who have entered the non- professional employments. And now it seems that there is no occupation belonging exclusively to men. While this tendency on the face of it is sufficiently remarkable, nevertheless, the change in methods and opinions which underlie it are still more noteworthy. The reproach of uselessness, frivolity and petty or-