human
Not only with regard to _property_, also in regard to _children_, the law is unjust to women. The mother has to undergo much in bringing a child to maturity--the agony of childbirth... the countless cares of tending and watching by night and day. The child becomes the darling of her heart, the image of her dreams, the great centre of her thoughts and hopes; and after all her toils, the law permits a husband to take the child permanently out of her sight, and (if he choose) to put it under the charge of an enemy ... who will fill its mind with falsehoods and teach it to hate and despise its mother. Such things are not possibilities merely and dreams; they are stern realities, and the law gives her no redress.
gpt
Men, who alone make the laws, make them with but little account of woman. At home with her children she is defenceless. She has no power over them, and her husband is not bound to
human
her, notwithstanding the sentence, which English law has made absolutely meaningless, of his marriage vow to her:
gpt
With all my worldly goods I thee endow.
human
in a legal sense; and during election time her house is described, in canvassing for votes, as having
gpt
! In the world, too, she is unable to obtain a fair wage for her work. She may do the work as well as man, but nevertheless, in most cases, her pay is less. Mr. Johnston tells us that the average male worker's wage has been calculated to be about 18s., but the average woman worker's wage is only about 7s. And when women find out these many injustices suffered at home and in the world by their sex, as Miss Christabel Pankhurst says, they are absolutely unable to right these wrongs, for