“The women's movement spoke of moral purity, while feminists emphasized rights and personal development” (Norton et al. 555). Although feminists took a more demanding and formidable approach to achieving their goals, they still retained the gentler side of their sexuality. “Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of Women and Economics (1898) is an important figure and one of the most influential feminists in this social evolution. He argued that the roles of servants have become obsolete” (Norton et al. 555). However, without the cult of domestic life, men would not have been able to achieve the wealth they have. “Gilman argued that women's work in the home certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society” (Gilman 13). Men's authoritarian attitudes, however, hinder women's ability to achieve economic independence. Accordingly, Gilman emphasized that women who are seen as men's property and forced to do housework without being paid for it, must be economically independent. Women and Economics gained popularity under the new term “feminism” as Gilman further called for women to earn their own economic independence within a male-dominated context.