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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: accountant probably expends today more reason, imagination, forethought,
and memory on the management of her small household, than he in his far
simpler, monotonous arithmetical toil; that, as there is no cause for
supposing that the tailor or shoemaker needs less intellect in his calling
than the soldier or prize-fighter, so there is nothing to suggest that, in
the past, woman has not expended as much pure intellect in the mass of her
callings as the man in his; while in those highly specialised intellectual
occupations, in which long and uninterrupted training tending to one point
is necessary, such as the liberal professions and arts, that, although
woman has practically been excluded from the requisite training, and the
freedom to place herself in the positions in which they can be pursued,
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