One sees in the West that girls often receive less opportunity for education than their brothers; that daughters inherit a lesser portion than sons; that the work of women is paid at a lower rate than that of men. And in the East this male tendency is responsible for such customs as the seclusion of women. Thus everywhere, East or West, even if unexpressed, there exists this tendency to regard a woman as the honor and care of a man, and consequently as less dependent upon her own efforts than upon his.