Sentence:  Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment – these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist <WSD>termagant</WSD>, but reasonable, logical, and untiring. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish.