...social and economic progress. The legal subordination of women, he asserted, "is wrong itself" and "ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality,...privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other." No equivalent of anti-Semitic leagues or parties was needed, however, to keep the biological argument...

...one sex to the other was wrong, that it had become a barrier to human progress, and that it should be replaced "by a principle of perfect equality, admitting...privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other." 57 Following the earlier lead of Catherine Macaulay (1731-91) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), Mill...

...the opening page of The Subjection of Women, Mill maintains that 'the legal subordination of one sex to the other ... is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.96 For Stephen, this statement is tautological since 'human improvement' supplies the criterion...