I'm posting this here because this forum seems to be where this topic is popular.  It's in response to the many posts on worldly women.

If women have been unhappy with their role in the home it is because they have not given enough to it. If we merely feed and clothe children and keep the house clean we are "unprofitable servants," deserving neither thanks nor reward. Success and happiness comes when we make a wholehearted effort, go the second mile. This follows a principle of truth, "He who loseth his life in service to others, will surely find it."

Women of the movement feel they must leave their meager roles in the home to serve humanity elsewhere. They must find a cure for cancer or serve in science, industry or the government. Some even think they need to serve their church.  They ignore the fact that they can best serve society in the home, preparing their children to be useful citizens, instilling in them moral values, inspiring them to noble goals and serving as their husband's support in an increasingly threatening world. We do not need a woman to be president or rescue a dwindling world. There are plenty of men to do that. The greatest need of our country today is better mothers and more secure, happy homes. In this lies the strength of America.

The feminists have rejected their feminine sphere, where they are so desperately needed and are forcing their way into the man's world, thinking it is a better place. Here they must compete with men for equality. Here they must strive for position, taking on the traits of aggressiveness and determination if they are to succeed along with men. But women, if they are truly women, will never excel men in his world, unless they lose their womanliness. They will be misfits, wandering between two worlds but excelling in neither. They have underestimated the value of being a woman and exaggerated the benefits of being a man.

There is no justification for women to desert their posts in the home and offer to help men solve their problems. Women have had a record of failure in the home. Most of our social problems stem from homes where the woman has failed to establish a successful home life. We have an alarmingly high record of divorce, family turmoil and youth problems. Isn't it presumptuous on the part of women to leave their homes, where they have failed, and offer to help men solve their problems? The weak spot in America is the home - - where the emphasis should be in solving problems.

Their complaint about discrimination is another misconception. If men have taken the initiative to keep women out of the man's world or treat them differently it is because they respect femininity and would like to preserve their gentle nature. The feminists ignore a fundamental fact, that men and women are different psychologically, temperamentally and socially as well as physically. The theory that the masculine and feminine traits are learned is false. God created male and female and each was given characteristics to function in his role. One has only to care for a large number of children from infancy to see the pronounced difference in the male and female children as they play together, yet develop differently in nature. A busy mother does not have time to teach her children to be male and female. They are so without instruction.

It is strange but the feminists never speak of love, either the love between a man and a woman or between parents and children. Yet love, next to food and warmth, has been recognized as the most basic human need. And last, the feminists think entirely too much of what they want, instead of where their responsibility lies. If our world is to succeed, both men and women must serve where they are most urgently needed and do so unselfishly.