Unanimity of NeedsBy Katherine Anthony(Author of “Mothers Who Must Earn,” and “Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia,” from which the following is taken.)
By Katherine Anthony
(Author of “Mothers Who Must Earn,” and “Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia,” from which the following is taken.)
The woman movement of the civilized world wants much the same thing in whatever language its demands are expressed. In more or less unconscious cooperation, the women of the civilized nations have from the first worked for similar ends and common interests. Beyond all superficial differences and incidental forms, the vision of theemancipated woman wears the same features whether she be hailed asfrau,fru, orwoman. The disfranchisement of a whole sex, a condition which has existed throughout the civilized world until a comparatively recent date, has bred in half the population an unconscious internationalism. The man without a country was a tragic exception; the woman without a country was the accepted rule. The enfranchisement of the women now under way has come too late to inculcate in them the narrow views of citizenship which were once supposed to accompany the gift of the vote. Its effect will rather be to make the unconscious internationalism of the past the conscious internationalism of the future.