Some of these have attained the attitude of men, and meet them on the same ground. Then there are women, as there are men, who frankly are in politics for what they can get out of it. This attitude is comparatively rare, however, because most women working in all political organizations are volunteers. Their motives for being volunteers may be mixed. I am far from claiming that as a sex we have a monopoly of disinterested desire to serve our country.
Human nature is much the same in men and women.
But the fact remains that the great mass of women working in political organizations all over this country are unpaid, and they are so far allowed to do the detail work which bores the men. Now many volunteer political workers come out of such unorganized homes. When the children are small, if they have little help in their homes, the mothers cannot do outside work. If they are women of means and have more help at home, they may still have led disorganized lives, for of necessity a home and children make unexpected demands. I should not want the average woman, or the exceptional woman for that matter, who for one reason or another could not do a public job well, to take one at present.