Women and economics : a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution / by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Date:
- 1915
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Women and economics : a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution / by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Setting the Forces Free It is worth while for us to consider the case fully and fairly, that we may see what it is that is happening to us, and welcome with open arms the happiest change in human con¬ dition that ever came into the world. To free an entire half of humanity from an artificial position; to release vast natural forces from a strained and clumsy combination, and set them free to work smoothly and easily as they were intended to work; to introduce condi¬ tions that will change humanity from within, making for better motherhood and fatherhood, better babyhood and childhood, better food, better homes, better society,— this is to work for human improvement along natural lines. It means enormous racial advance, and that with great swiftness; for this change does not wait to create new forces, but sets free those already potentially strong, so that humanity will fly up like a released spring. And it is already happening. All we need do is to understand and help. 3]7](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29815083_0335.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
