The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1898
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Credit: The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    out in any and every line of activity grew with a remarkable vigor. One might with safety say, that they have not observed the bounds of moderation; that in searching for new opportunities, they have at times overstepped the limits set by their functional and social position. As a result, the fields of work formerly held exclusively by men have been more and more energetically invaded by women; industrially the barriers which separated the sexes have been assiduously assailed, until there is now no real line at which one may say that a man’s work ends and a woman’s begins. Naturally, there has been a lack of moderation in all this; the hand has swung too far around the dial, until its direction is as eccentric as it ever was. The principal consideration is, that in the strain and stress of active life, no regard is held for what industries may be most profitable to the individual woman and the community. The great idea seems to be that she must do something, must earn money, must as- sume a certain share of active responsibility by going out into the world and grappling with its harsh con- ditions. To the former ideas of luxury-fetichism she has added the idols of theoretic equality, until the resulting worship is, indeed, a remarkable mixture. Such equality has ever been a strange thing. It mixes real with fancied conditions; true with ficti- tious needs in human nature; true psychological laws