Erikson supposed an exciting opportunity lay in this: women would ultimately adapt traditionally male jobs to “the potentialities and needs of the feminine psyche.” Such a “revolutionary reappraisal may even lead to the insight that jobs now called masculine force men, too, to inhuman adjustments.” While women could match men’s performance and competence, they would fully succeed when they shaped the workplace to fit their nature: “True equality can only mean the right to be uniquely creative.”
