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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: half, of the weight of the productive labours of her societies, in addition
to child-bearing; and allowing more fully that she may be as well able to
sustain her share in the intellectual labours of the future as in the more
mechanical labours of the past; granting all this, may there not be one
aspect of the question left out of consideration which may reverse all
conclusions as to the desirability, and the human good to be attained by
woman's enlarged freedom and her entering into the new fields of toil?
What if, the increased culture and mental activity of woman necessary for
her entrance into the new fields, however desirable in other ways for
herself and the race, should result in a diminution, or in an absolute
abolition of the sexual attraction and affection, which in all ages of the
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