So in government, we must have a state which will be not only just but merciful; which will concern itself not only with militant economics but also with human well-being.  If men are more capable in expressing the katabolic needs of aggression and protection, women must furnish the anabolic products of care and conservation.  If women must help pay the bills and nurse the wounded, they must first have a voice in determining whether there shall be a war.  Men and women must join their qualities in building and caring for cities, and in shaping nations, where they can both live their largest lives.

In education, we must devise institutions which will provide for the special needs of women; and we must have the combined qualities of men and women brought to bear on children of both sexes, and at all ages.  The foster parents of the nation’s children must be both men and women.  The present attempt to exploit our twenty millions of boys and girls in the interest of a sex will be a crime against humanity when we are intelligent enough to see its real meaning.

The specialization going on in industry means infinite variety if we look at the whole field of activity.  Some parts of the world’s work are specially fitted for men; other parts to women.  No intelligent division of labor has been attempted in the period since all work was transformed by our modern inventions.  Possibly men should do most of the dressmaking, and women should make men’s clothing, but no intelligent man or woman can doubt that most work falls naturally into the hands of one sex or the other.  Some day we shall know enough so that there will be little or no industrial competition between men and women.

It is, however, in the family that both men and women must find their deepest supplementary values.  Sex antagonism can do much to impoverish and ruin individual lives; but the monogamic and persistent union of lovers, surrounded by their children, will easily survive all the mistakes of a time of transition.  In the meantime, those who would uphold the finest family ideals of the past have less cause to fear the militant agitator than they have to fear the idle, parasitic wife, who relies on her legal rights to give her luxuries without labor, position without leadership, and wifehood without the care and responsibility of children.

From the point of view of this book, all the efforts to open the doors of opportunity, through which women can pass into the man’s world, are but preparations for the beginning of a journey.  The sooner all such doors are opened the better, for then a great source of dangerous sex antagonism will pass away; and the energy of reformers will be set free to work out the difficult problem of supplementary sex adjustments.