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has said : " The real task of the feminist is 

 to devise an education for girls so that they 

 shall be capable of earning their living and 

 sharing in the world's work and yet remain fit 

 for the future wifehood and motherhood." 



Another step leads us to the technical 

 education for the professions, and here the 

 biological counsel must be the same that 

 we should seek to make the most of the 

 complementary qualities. One of the keenest 

 of intellectual combatants has said that, 

 apart from maternity, the woman of strong 

 physique or strong intellect may excel in any 

 pursuit whatever her average male compeer. 

 With this we entirely agree, but we submit 

 that it profits national efficiency more when 

 gifted women do what no man could do so well, 

 or when men and women work together as 

 naturally as they once played together. We 

 must be content with one illustration. It is 

 well that medical schools and medical posts 

 should be open to women of special aptitude. 

 There must be free experiment if social 

 efficiency is to be attained. But from our 

 general biological point of view, it seems that 

 the most promising line of experiment would 

 be that of providing specialised education 

 for medical women not " easier " or " lower," 

 or any nonsense of that sort, but different 

 so that there might arise not duplication 

 of one type of medical servant in the State 

 but two distinct types of medical servant. 

 It must be urgently emphasised, however, that 

 the fittest medical education for women is not 

 likely to be that which men, in their wisdom, 



