Well, and what else?"
"She can bear children," said Jane. "She ought to be paid well for
that."
"You're only paid well," Rodney replied, "for something you can do
exceptionally well, or for something that few people can do at all. As
long as the vast majority of women can bear children, the only women who
could get well paid for it would be those exceptionally qualified, or
exceptionally proficient. This is economics, now we're talking. Other
considerations are left out. No, I tell you. Economic independence, if
she really got it--the kind of woman I've been talking about--would make
her very, very sick."
"She'd get over being sick though, wouldn't she," said Rose, "after a
while? And then, don't you think she'd be glad?"
Rodney laughed. "The sort of woman I've been talking about," he said,
"would feel, when all was said, that she'd got a gold brick."
Rose poured his coffee with a steady hand. They were in the library by
now.
"If that's so," she said, "then the kind of woman you've been talking
about has already got a profession--the one you were just speaking of
as--as the oldest.
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