each of us should be slaves to our own compulsions, should we care to retain them. As for her lack of interest in housework, there is nothing essentially feminino about housework. When we boil it down to specific tasks, most of them are considered masculine in industry: dishwashing, floor polishing, furniture polishing, cooking, laundry machine attendant, electrical repairman, fireman, snow-shoveler, purchasing agent, chauffeur, etc., etc. Only a few of the tasks would be considered feminine endeavors by industry: dressmaking, dietician, nurse. But for each of these jobs there are varying aptitudes, and it is nonsense to say that a woman has aptitude and interest in these tasks merely because because she is a woman

In Mrs. Brown we have the typical example of a woman of high I.Q. and education who is stagnating and bored. Ꭺ great contradiction is that she has a vital interest in children but wants none of her own. Here, too, we run into a familiar cliche the normal man and woman must have a deep desire for children. I question this. On what would we base such an assumpti on? Is it abnormal not to want to bring forth children? Mrs. Brown gives a reason that sounds plausible. She says that there is too much misery in the world to want to bring a child to suffer it. She would rather try to alleviate the misery of those children already here. Some might conclude that this is a rationalization. Might we not equally say that it is a rationalization to want to question this seemingly intelligent reply? I would know of no authority by which to answer this.

What Mrs. Brown and I finally worked out was that she could earn enough as a stenographer two days a week to hire someone to relieve her of the drudgery she called housework and to keep the house in the condition her orderly husband wanted. For the rest of the time she returned to school to train her self for professional life as a nursery school teacher. At least she would be using her potentialities for some social good. But we still have left the sex problem unsolved. We? It would seem to me that about all we can ask of the se two is that they be good friends and that on those occasions when one or the other happens to have some desire they try to stimulate the other to action. We have

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