UNITED NATIONS Planets in the Sky
"I'm sure I've often pitied a poor girl," said Mrs. Warren, speaking from experience, "tired out and in low spirits, having to please some man . . . [Still] it's far better than any other employment open to her . . ."
Thus, in 1894. Bernard Shaw justified Mrs. Warren's Profession by blaming it on the sweatshop wages which capitalism paid the female proletariat. Mrs. Warren was invoked as a witness last week before the U.N.'s Social and Humanitarian Committee, which was debating a Draft Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of...
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