Charlotte joined the Daily Express as a journalist in 1920; she also became an advocate of divorce reform, married women's employment, and easier access to contraception.
[2] In the same year, she wrote a dystopian novel, Man's World, set in a society ruled by a male scientific elite who restrict the number of women born.
[1] From adolescence women in this world are either made into "vocational mothers" or, if they have no interest in motherhood, they are sterilized by the government and become "neuters".
Despite Charlotte Haldane's feminism, Sheila Jeffreys has called Motherhood and its Enemies "an antifeminist classic".
[4] During the Spanish Civil War she took part in fund-raising activities on behalf of the International Brigades, becoming honorary secretary of the Dependents Aid Committee and serving as receptionist of recruits in Paris.
[7] Charlotte Haldane was sent to the Moscow by the Daily Sketch to report on the Soviets' progress in defending themselves against the German invasion of 1941 (called Operation Barbarossa).