[Ads-l] Antedating of "Double Standard"

[Shapiro, Fred]

double standard (OED 1951)

1872 _The Shield_ (London) 2 Mar. 851 (19th Century U.K. Periodicals)  The earliest institution to which they might trace the absence of moral purity in society, was the establishment by men of a double standard of morality -- one for themselves and another for women.


Fred Shapiro

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