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woman's work

except for what goes on during childbirth, there is no work biologically specific only to women. "[I]t is a retrogressive idea to call any particular sphere of work 'Women's'. We do not know what women's work will be, we only know what it has been" (Caroline Boord, The Freewoman, 1911). See also man's work.


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