REBECCA WEST (ESSAY DATE 26 NOVEMBER 1912)
SOURCE: West, Rebecca. "The Woman as Workmate: Her Claim to Equal Rates of Pay for Equal Quality of Work." Manchester Daily Dispatch (26 November 1912).
In the following excerpt, West responds to an article by George Edgar denouncing women's participation in the workplace, and makes a case for equal pay for equal work.
Every man likes to think of himself as a kind of Whiteley's—a universal provider. The patriarchal system is the ideal for which he longs. He likes to dream of...
Source: Feminism in Literature, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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