How long does it take to read Women and Economics?
a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Tushar Lohia, Michael S. Kimmel, Amy Aronson, Marie Stritt, Aletta H. Jacobs
Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Tushar Lohia, Michael S. Kimmel, Amy Aronson, Marie Stritt, Aletta H. Jacobs takes about 3 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1898. 209 pages, about 57,475 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 279 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her survival. Gilman's thesis challenges both biological and theological arguments about women's innate passivity and defies the virtual exclusion of women in classical sociological theory. If women are to fully engage in domestic and public life, Gilman contends that their emancipation requires both economic participation and adequate child care. Gilman's argument in this classic work resonates today, as women continue their struggle to find a meaningful independent identity and to balance work and family. Here reprinted with a new introduction, Women and Economics belongs on the same shelf as works by Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and other pioneering feminists.
Subjects: Economic conditions, Social and moral questions, Social conditions, Women, Women's rights, Woman
