The Business of Being a Woman

The Business of Being a Woman is a book deals with role of women in society written by Ida Minerva Tarbell, an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. Apart from being associate editor of The American Magazine, she is also the author of books like Life Of Abraham Lincoln, History Of The Standard Oil Co., and He Knew Lincoln.

Author's Introduction:

The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which the author feels in the modern woman, of the significance and dignity of the work laid upon her by Nature and by society. Its ideas are the result of a long, if somewhat desultory, observation of the professional, political, and domestic activities of women in this country and in France. These observations have led to certain definite opinions as to those phases of the woman question most in need of emphasis to-day.

A great problem of human life is to preserve faith in and zest for everyday activities. The universal easily becomes the vulgar and the burdensome. The highest civilization is that in which the largest number sense, and are so placed as to realize, the dignity and the beauty of the common experiences and obligations.