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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: the evening smoking and reading before her study fire or receiving her
guests; it is the thought of the woman who, as legislator, may loll for
perhaps six hours of the day on the padded seat of legislative bench,
relieving the tedium now and then by a turn in the billiard- or
refreshment-room, when she is not needed to vote or speak; it is the
thought of the woman as Greek professor, with three or four hundred a year,
who gives half a dozen lectures a week, and has leisure to enjoy the
society of her husband and children, and to devote to her own study and
life of thought; it is she who wrings his heart. It is not the woman, who,
on hands and knees, at tenpence a day, scrubs the floors of the public
buildings, or private dwellings, that fills him with anguish for womanhood:
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