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The article discusses the place of women in history, particularly the societal expectation that married women should stop working and should only perform domestic duties. Also cited are the 1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, the implementation of the marriage bar banning the appointment of married women to certain jobs, and the easing of the marriage bars during the First World War.

The article features British novelist and a tireless social reformer Mary Ward, who supported the anti-suffrage movement. She was the founding president of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage which held a grand rally in London, England in February 1912. She claimed that feminine difference did not denote inferiority but women were intended to take on a different role in society.