WomenWorkers

The aim of the Fabian Women's Group was to elicit women's own thoughts and feelings on their economic
position, and to this end we invited women of experience and expert knowledge, from various quarters and of
many types of thought, to discourse of what they best knew to audiences of women. After the lectures, the
questions raised were discussed in all their bearings by women speaking amongst women without diffidence
or prejudice. In this manner the physical disabilities of women as workers have been explained clearly by
women doctors, and carefully and frankly weighed and considered; the part taken by women in producing the
wealth of this country in past times has been set forth by students of economic history, and much scattered
material of great value unearthed, and for the first time brought together concerning a subject hitherto deemed
negligible by the male historian.