“That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes — the legal subordination of one sex to the other — is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.”
– John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an influential British political philosopher and economist. He was an early advocate of women’s equality in the UK.
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