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As we deal yet again in 2017 (some 95 years later) with the struggle to establish and maintain women's rights, Ms. Peyser's words could have almost been written yesterday. There should be no negativity attached to the home being a woman's domain. For even today as working women, mothers, caregivers of our adult parents or siblings, single or married, we find ourselves still the primary purchasing agent of home goods, decorator, and home maker. Making a house a home still remains largely a feminine task. The ability to do so should be a badge of honor, and not a prison or mark of shame.
From Cheating the Junk Pile ~1922 by Ethel R. Peyser
Introduction
The Housewife as Manager and Purchasing Agent
'Several years ago we heard a great deal of talk about women's place being in the home. The slogan was used as a campaign challenge and as a sneer. It was bandied up and down the country-side until we got pretty tired of hearing it. Since the privilege of voting has been given women and since their weight is being felt in the elections, the cry has died down. The simple reason is that neither the employment of women in war-work nor the radical challenges of the ultra-feminist has altered the fundamental fact that the home is a women's realm. Now you can banish her to the home and make it such a place of drudgery that she loathes it; or she can abide there as a queenly figure, director of its work.'
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