Teddy Roosevelt: “To have the woman a mere drudge is at least as bad as to have the man…”

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To have the woman a mere drudge is at least as bad as to have the man a mere drudge.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt argues against reducing women to mere laborers, equating their roles with those of men in terms of dignity.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “To have the woman a mere drudge is at least as bad as to have the man a mere drudge.”