Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
 Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography (1913). copy citation

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“Moreover, he must work, he must do his part in the world. On the other hand, the woman must realize that she has no more right to shirk the business of wifehood and motherhood than the man has to shirk his business as breadwinner for the household. Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly. Yet normally for the man and the woman whose welfare is more important than the welfare of any other human beings, the woman must remain the housemother, the homekeeper, and the man must remain the breadwinner, the provider for the wife who bears his children and for the children she brings into the world.” source

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