And girls take part in the most varied fields of production

American woman's need to earn her livelihood, she wants to work. The idea of marriage and the raising of children is more general today than at any time past, and many working women hope to find the man of their life during their work and where they work.

In the public schools these days, and in the universities and colleges, culture is available to women and men alike.

It is natural that learning should awaken in woman the very inclinations and desires it awakens in man. It has likewise become accepted in most regions of the United States that a girl should go to work as soon as she finishes her studies, no matter whether her family is rich or poor.

Most women may give up the work they have been doing when they marry, but there is a

large group — especially those women who desire the professions that demand long study and training — who wish to continue their studies after marriage.

"Women's associations" open a field of work to women who have a little spare time. The number of these associations, their variety, and the scope of their work in the United States have no parallel in the other countries of the world. Two principal ones deserve mention:

"The General Union of Women's Associations," which comprises 17,000 local associations, and "the Women's League," which has branches in 35 of the 48 states. Nearly all these institutions are run by women volunteers elected by the local associations. These two institutions have no partisan or sectarian character; their aim is to bring woman into the questions of local and general government.

The very breadth of these women's institutions is clear proof of the extent of woman's interest in public questions and of her sacrifice in their cause.

And in the countryside women also do all the household chores