I'm not sure how long ago this was written, but is shows how indefensibly slow progress towards meaninful equality has been.
""She is quite right. The professions are not
sufficiently open to women. They are still far too much
circumscribed in their employments. They are a feeble
folk, the women who have to work for their bread--poor,
unorganized, timid, taking as a favor what they might
demand as a right. That is why their case is not more
constantly before the public, for if their cry for
redress was as great as their grievance it would fill the
world to the exclusion of all others."

My mother was so much smarter than I was, I couldn't make it as a male chauvinist.