Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

Key Ideas:

• To be free, women need economic independence 
• Gender stereotyping in childhood is wrong 
• Sex and domestic economics went hand in hand 
• Young girls are forced to conform to a domestic role and motherhood from childhood 
• There should be no difference in clothes or toys 
• Motherhood should not stop a woman from working outside of the home
• Communal housing should be constructed for men and women which would allow them to live singly and form companionships - freeing women to have a wider role in a society
• Destruction of the traditional nuclear family 

Quotes:

• 'In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrationg a healthy and positive repsonse'
• 'The labour of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth then they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses'

Key Ideas:

• To be free, women need economic independence 
• Gender stereotyping in childhood is wrong 
• Sex and domestic economics went hand in hand 
• Young girls are forced to conform to a domestic role and motherhood from childhood 
• There should be no difference in clothes or toys 
• Motherhood should not stop a woman from working outside of the home
• Communal housing should be constructed for men and women which would allow them to live singly and form companionships - freeing women to have a wider role in a society
• Destruction of the traditional nuclear family 

Quotes:

• 'In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrationg a healthy and positive repsonse'
• 'The labour of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth then they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses'