A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. … May we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

Jane Addams (1860–1935) American reformer, suffragist, philosopher, author

Newer Ideals of Peace, “Utilization of Women in City Government” (1907)