Faith Fairfield

Rebuffing a piece published two months earlier, Fairfield dismissed the popular notion that women are biologically inferior to men. Real societal barriers—not then-supposed differences in the endocrine system—were the reason women were held back, Fairfield argued.

"The progress of man has never been impeded by preconceived ideas regarding his abilities, his proper interests, and his appropriate activities. Woman has always been so hampered."