Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gilman moved the argument from votes to money. Women and Economics (1898) claimed that women's economic dependence on husbands, not any natural difference, shaped their characters, and proposed kitchenless homes, professional cooking and shared childcare so wives could earn. Her utopian novel Herland imagines a society of women alone. Her views on race and immigration, which drew on the eugenics of her day, are part of reading her honestly.