“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.”

The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, Chapter 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=ys13gZliXFAC (1928)
1920s

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