Feminine strength and endurance have always been economic
assets for men a source of cheap labor for business and industry, of
unpaid labor in the home. For centuries women have toiled on farms
and in factories. Crawling on their hands and knees, stripped to the
waist, they have pulled loads through coal mine tunnels too narrow
to accommodate a horse. In Russia to day, women build roads, lay
bricks, and operate heavy equipment. Back in our own frontier days,
every pioneer woman had to be able to do “a man’s work”