University of Virginia Library

The Question of Chivalry.

Justice would be worth more to women than chivalry, if they could
not have both. A working girl put the case in a nutshell when she
said: "I would gladly stand for twenty minutes in the street car going
home, if by doing so I could get the same pay that a man would
have had for doing my day's work." But women do not have to
stand in the street cars half as often in Denver as in Boston or in
New York. Justice and chivalry are not in the least incompatible.
Women have more freedom and equality in America than in Europe,
yet American men are the most chivalrous in the world.