The Crime

". . . In one of these categories, . . . the inferiority feelings of the women have markedly increased, and are far more numerous than among men.

"This curious result may have only a local significance. The women in the study were students in a girls' college in the shadow of a large university attended only by men. They were dependant for all their instruction on teachers from the neighboring university, and the . . . men seemed to undermine the women's confidence in the . . . abilities of their own sex, and of themselves.

". . . Moral inferiorities are least frequent, probably not because of the superior virtue of the students, . . ." G. W. Allport, Personality: A Psychological Interpretation, Henry Holt & Co., 1937, pp. 174-5.