E FOREGOING CHAPTER WITH SOME FURTHER REMARKS ON SEX
DIFFERENCES

I.--_Women and Labour_

A further examination of the sexual differences--The knowledge we
have gained does not enable us definitely to settle the
problem--The necessity of considering Nurture--Woman's
character to some extent the result of circumstance, to some
extent organic--The difficulties of the problem--Standards of
comparison--Incompleteness of our knowledge--New researches
on sex-differences--The confusion of opinions--Women and men
different, but neither superior to the other--The position of
women in society to-day--The increasing surplus of women--How
can a remedy be found?--Woman's place in the home--The
changes in modern conditions--Women and labour--The damning
struggle for life--Sweated work--Women's wages--The
marketable value of woman's sex--This the explanation of the
smallness of women's wages--The prostitute better paid than
the worker--Woman's strength as compared with man's--Are
women really the weaker sex?--Woman's work capacity equal to
man's, but different--The Spanish women--The intolerable
conditions of labour in commercial countries--Women more
deeply concerned than men--The real value of women's
work--This must be recognised by the State--The social
service of child-bearing--The primary and most important work
of women--The present revolt of women--How far is this
justifiable--A caution and some reflections.

II.--_Sexual Differences of the Mind and the Artistic Impulse in
Women_

The mental and psychical sexual differences--Ineradicability of
these--Can they be modified or disregarded?--The masculine
and feminine intellectual qualities--Caution necessary in
making any comparison--Example, a tenacious memory--Is this a
feminine characteristic?--Woman's intuition--Its value--Each
sex contributes to the thought power of the other--The
artistic impulse--Is genius to be regarded as an endowment of
the male?--An examination of the grounds for this
view--Untenability of the opinion of the greater variational
tendency of men--The question needs reopening--The influence
of environment and training on woman's mind--What woman can,
or can not, do as yet unproved--Woman's talent for
diplomacy--The separation between the mental