---
title: 'The Incapacity of Business Women'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune'
date: 1889-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 19'
- 'Proverbs 31'
- 'Ephesians 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/terhune-1889-the-incapacity-of-business-women
---

# The Incapacity of Business Women

Two essays: one on divorce law’s impact on family stability; another arguing women are ill-suited for business due to social precedent and temperament, urging discipline and reform.

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