Jane Addams, social worker and feminist leader of Chicago, does not share the opinion of Rebecca West, the novelist, that nature designed mere men to be menials and servants, leaving the important tasks in life to women. She expressed that opinion today on sailing aboard the liner Montroyal for a cruise of the West Indies.
"I'm afraid Miss West has not been understood," she laughed. "Perhaps she meant that men are stronger and therefore physiologically better equipped for the harder tasks."
As for women being smarter than men, Miss Addams was uncertain. The men have had so much more opportunity than women to show their ability that it is too soon to judge the women, she said.
"Certainly men up to this time have produced the chief geniuses," she asserted. "Women have not had a fair chance. I do not regard genius as a thing of sex."
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