The greatest service to humankind?

The greatest service to humankind?

 

Clothilde and Elena among the rocks at Javea
An image of a mother and her child by Joaquin Sorolla
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“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman’s work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.”

George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928), chapter 8

 

 


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