Household administration : its place in the higher education of women / edited by Alice Ravenhill and Catherine J. Schiff.

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[1910]
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Credit: Household administration : its place in the higher education of women / edited by Alice Ravenhill and Catherine J. Schiff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Boards of Guardians, &c.; in fact in the growing field of social work, her services are being more and more recognised as indispensable, and it is impossible in a few words to enumerate all the possibilities of service which he before her, both professional and philanthropic. Consequently if a healthy nation is desired, the women of a country must be educated both academically and scientifically. “ If women are to be fit wives and mothers they must have all, perhaps more, of the opportunities for personal development that men have. All the activities hitherto reserved to men must be open to them, and many of these activities, certain functions of citizenship, for example, must be expected of them. Moreover, whatever the lines may be along which the fitness of woman to labour will be experiment- ally determined, the underlying position must be established that, for the sake of the individual and race character, she must be a producer as well as a consumer'of social values.” 1 Now how is this most desirable end to be attained ? The succeeding papers will deal with the subject in extenso; here can only be briefly indicated the scope and purpose of the majority. An eminent authority tells us that “ the objects of nature may be designated as the objective point of view. It is the standpoint of biology and affords the natural conditions for the success- 1 Parsons, “ The Family,” p. 3 ;6.
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