Chapter 8 - Professions for Women - Suggestions for Writing: In the final paragraph of her speech, Woolf says, “Even when the path is nominally open—when there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant—there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe, looming in her way.” Write an essay in which you defend, challenge, or modify that statement with regard to women today in the United States or to women in another country where gender equality might be more problematic. Pay particular attention to what you see as the “phantoms and obstacles.”