The Importance of Women in Law

Had you been able to show women and men were different, would that have persuaded him that separate laws would be appropriate for men and women? Not at all. John Stuart Mill pretty obviously did think it was very likely that men and women were different by nature. But what he said was, we don't know. And even simply asserted it's obvious that men are different from the crown of their head to the soles of their feet. He said different texture of the brain, different everything. So this was obviously something interesting going on in the idea of the natural here. It wasn't until years later when I'd been working on Darwin that I worked out what this was.