Reading Shirley Dare's 1890 essay on women's labor made me realize we are still debating this and it's been over a century.

Shirley Dare wrote about women being paid less for the same work in 1890, and we're still having the exact same argument. Reading her essay "A Brighter Hope for Women" completely dismantled my assumption that this was a recent conversation; her central claim attacks the idea that simply educating women will solve their economic problems. Dare argues that flooding the market with trained workers only drives wages into the ground, a point that maps almost perfectly onto modern conversations about the "just ge