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that some of the educational and occupational 

 differentiations of man and woman in past 

 times have been harmonious and consistent 

 with the fundamental divergence. It seems 

 consistent that men should fight, if there 

 must be fighting; and that women should 

 nurse, when nursing is necessary. Man 

 hunted and explored, woman made the home 

 and brought up the children. Man sailed 

 the seas, woman developed home industries. 

 Woman is naturally a teacher of the young, 

 a domesticator, a gardener, and so on. Scores 

 of these harmonious differentiations still exist. 

 This historical commonplace need not be 

 elaborated; but it suggests several remarks 

 of importance. (1) When we say that this 

 or that occupational differentiation is natural 

 to woman, we do not simply mean that it 

 has been sanctioned by convention. We 

 mean that it is congruent with femaleness, 

 that it occurs in many races and countries, 

 and that it has stood for a long time the test 

 of eliminative selection. (2) The harmless 

 historical commonplace has sometimes been 

 used to discourage the education of women 

 and the widening of her share in the world's 

 work. " Her place is in the home," it is 

 said. To which it might be answered, firstly, 

 that much depends on the nature of the home. 

 It was a very many-sided home in which 

 woman evolved. And, secondly, that in 

 the present condition of things, in Britain 

 for instance, a very large number of women 

 never have what most men and women mean 

 by a home. (3) And, again, the historical 



