According to the reading by Elise Johnson McDougald, the task of Negro Womanhood is interpret the lives of the negro women, as well as their occupations and duties they hold. McDougald goes into great detail about the lives and the jobs taken in Harlem by the Negro women. It explains in detail how far the Negro women have come and what they have accomplished. In this quote, the author proclaims "here, more than anywhere else, the negro women is free from the cruder handicaps of primitive household hardships and the grosser forms of sex and race subjugation. Here, she has considerable opportunity to measure her powers in the intellectual and industrial field of the great city" (McDougald, 68). This shows the the superiority and advancement in
