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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: attains maturity, no step in the reproductive journey, or in their relation
to their offspring, has been quite identical for the man and the woman.
And this divergence of experiences in human relations must react on their
attitude towards that particular body of human concerns which directly is
connected with the sexual reproduction of the race; and, it is exactly in
these fields of human activity, where sex as sex is concerned, that woman
as woman has a part to play which she cannot resign into the hands of
others.
It may be truly said that in the laboratory, the designing-room, the
factory, the mart, the mathematician's study, and in all fields of purely
abstract or impersonal labour, while the entrance of woman would add to the
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