Sections 1 On the other point which is involved in the just equality of women, their admissibility to… 2 It is not sufficient to maintain that women on the average are less gifted than men on the… 3 Are we so certain of always finding a man made to our hands for any duty or function of… 4 It will perhaps be sufficient if I confine myself, in the details of my argument, to… 5 With regard to the fitness of women, not only to participate in elections, but themselves to… 6 If anything conclusive could be inferred from experience, without psychological analysis, it… 7 It may seem a waste of reasoning to argue against a bad joke; but such things do affect… 8 If it be true, then, that the administration is in the hands of better men under a queen… 9 This fact is in accordance with the best general conclusions which the world's imperfect… 10 When, consequently, they chance to be as well provided as men are with the results of other… 11 But this gravitation of women's minds to the present, to the real, to actual fact, while in… 12 If the existing mental characteristics of women are thus valuable even in aid of… 13 It will be said, perhaps, that the greater nervous susceptibility of women is a… 14 If not, why should women of the same temperament be unfit for them? 15 The capability of that lofty enthusiasm which takes the human being out of his every-day… 16 Supposing it, however, to be true that women's minds are by nature more mobile than those of… 17 But (it is said) there is anatomical evidence of the superior mental capacity of men… 18 Dismissing abstract difference of quality, a thing difficult to verify, the efficiency of an… 19 To so ridiculous an extent are the notions formed of the nature of women, mere empirical… 20 I have said that it cannot now be known how much of the existing mental differences between… 21 If we consider the works of women in modern times, and contrast them with those of men,… 22 Let us remember, then, so far as regards mere thought, that during all that period in the… 23 It no doubt often happens that a person, who has not widely and accurately studied the… 24 It is in the fine arts, properly so called, that the prima facie evidence of inferior… 25 In the present age, men of anything like similar calibre find something more important to… 26 To look only at the outward side of the subject: the great and continual exercise of thought… 27 There is another consideration to be added to all these. 28 As for moral differences, considered as distinguished from intellectual, the distinction… 29 The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any…
Start Learning Mill argues women should be free to compete for occupations, professions, and political rights on the same terms as men, rejecting the claim that their historical absence from public life proves incapacity rather than exclusion.
Exclusion from occupations and professions Competition as the fair test of capacity Women's historical record as rulers Domestic duties as a hidden tax on women's time The case for political enfranchisement
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