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external manifestation of inherent differences from the male.

Now one has to hasten to add, before somebody else raises the point, that all housewives are not equally interested, proficient or effective in the art, and neither are all women equally feminine in their appearances, interests, abilities etc. Granted. But this only proves the point. All females are not alike in anything other than their femaleness any more than all males are alike except in their male- ness. Now taking a lot of differing females and put them in one common situation and obviously you add a more or less equal situational quantity to a number of unequal individual quantities. Naturally you come up with unequal totals. From your high school geo- metry you may recall that, "If equal quantities are added to unequal quantities the results are unequal". But this unequal final result does not invalidate the conception that the requirements of the job act more or less equally on all those holding the job and change the individuals behavior patterns accord- ingly. When the rug is dirty and needs vacuuming one does it because the rug in effect asks to be cleaned rather than because one suddenly gets an urge to vacuum. Thus the behavior is appropriate to the stimulus.

Well, all of this may seem very abstract and hardly worth wasting valuable TVia pages on. But for th more thoughtful and insightful of you it may stimulate some interesting thoughts. I titled this article "Unfolding the Anima" because I feel that is what has been happening to me since moving into this house. Surely whatever the "anima" act- ually is has been with me in some degree and con- dition for years. But all of a sudden I find myself IN the "job" that calls for an anima reaction and presto it seems to unfold and open up inside me and I find abilities, interests, fascinations and sat- isfactions that I didn't know were there. This really letting the "girl within" not only come to

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