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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 93
by earning their own living, partly by house-
hold tasks. While the man goes from home
to his work, refreshed by rest, the woman often
goes already tired out, and she comes back to
the house perhaps to work at night. It is as
clear as day that by so doing she loses her
bodily health and mental equanimity, both
needed by her children. It is astonishing how
many working women despite all this have
enough energy for intellectual effort in read-
ing and thinking. They soon see, women like
these, that an occupation is not emancipation.
The best that can be said is that it is only a
means to emancipation. Those who work
with their hands are not the worst off in this
respect. Bookkeepers, telephone and tele-
graph operators, post-office employees, shop
girls, waiters in public establishments, and
servants in private houses, who must often
serve the public standing, and who are often
deprived of rest at night and on Sunday, are
practically labour’s worst slaves. Who can
wonder if the possible income obtained by an
immoral life is reckoned by the employer, when
he secures for his establishment, at low wages,
the services of attractive young girls? Small
wonder it is that such employees, worried to
death in shops, telephone bureaus, post and
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