Therefore, women believed that they had no choice other than to side with men. They were dependent on their fathers' or husbands' income, which prevented them from freedom. Although women did not work as judges, lawyers, or any other job in the public world, they worked at home. Women were wives, mothers, and daughters, and without them, "the state would collapse and fall to pieces, without whose work your sons, Sir, would cease to exist,"" (Three Guineas 54). .
Although this was unjust, men were not entirely at fault. Married men got paid twice that of a bachelor. Half of men's salary belonged to their wives, but women had little access to their husband's salary. "We may assume that the wife of an educated man has as much money to spend,"" (Three Guineas 55). Then why, didn't women spend that money on pleasures that she enjoyed? Because men made the money, women allowed them to decide how it should be spent. "She lays out thousands and thousands of pounds upon clubs to which her own sex in not admitted; upon racecourses where she may not ride; upon colleges from which her own sex is excluded. She pays a huge bill annually for wine which she does not drink and for cigars which she does not smoke,"" (Three Guineas 56). Once all of the bills were paid, women should have spent their share on causes that were important to them, on something that would benefit their own well being, such as education. Without their own income, women could not exert influence. .
Many women acted as men's slaves, which is why educating women was so important. In order for women to achieve independence, she must be educated and the professions must be open to her. "The value of education is among the greatest of all human values,"" (Three Guineas 24), and women were being deprived of it. By being educated, they had a chance of building a better world and preventing war. .
In The Years, also written by Virginia Woolf, most of the women felt that they had to cater to men.