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Women and Economics: A Study of the economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in social Evolution.

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Third edition, first published in 1898, of the best-known and most influential work of the prominent American feminist, sociologist, and novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

The central argument presented by Gilman in that Women and Economics is the necessity of the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and society as a whole.

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