the woman working in her home and outside her home.

This requires of the leaders of the women's movement that they undertake studies and researches into the conditions of woman in our country, drawing them from

their sources or entrusting them to specialists.

Woman's turning to work is without doubt the greatest mani-festation of her development in our age. The question of her political rights is only an appendage to this manifestation and its natural consequence. For her work has become broad and comprehensive to a degree that enables her to command many of the vital services of her country. There are occupations and professions counted as woman's specialty and no one else's: nursing and social assistance, elementary teaching and teaching in day nurseries and kindergartens, besides teaching in girls' schools and women's colleges. This makes the function of education a preserve of woman, for she begins it in the home and accompanies the child to the nurseries and the first schools, so that the number of women teachers would be double the number of men teachers if the schools of the two sexes were equal in number.

There are occupations women almost monopolize, such as typewriting, air hostessing, broad-casting, and women's journalism. And the doors of work keep widening before them: there is the arranging of libraries, the man-agement of hotels and restaurants, medicine for women and children, and work in laboratories, stores, and offices, in addition to public posts, industrial jobs, and domestic and agricultural labor.

Experience has lately shown us our

country's need of woman's work, as it has shown us women's growing desire for work — wit-ness the fact that many of them keep their work or seek it after marriage, and that many married women continue their university studies or learn some profession.

But the number of their schools does not meet the need, and their preparation for work suffers a grievous deficiency, especially for the teaching profession, which attracts the greatest number of them.

They stand in need of help and encouragement from gov-ernmental and non-governmental sources. They need an increase in the number of their schools; they need vocational and spe-cialized training schools; they need an increase in their wages to equal the wages of men, and someone to watch over their rights and ensure the enforcement of the labor laws in the fields of their work. They also lack someone to carry out organized studies that expand on

the description of the conditions of the woman working in her home and outside her home, and set forth her complaints and demands.

These are matters more worthy of the attention of women's organizations than juvenile reformatories and prison reform; for if the schools are reformed, and the standard of the work-ingman and the workingwoman is raised and her needs assured, the prisons will close and the juvenile reformatories can be dispensed with.

And perhaps we shall witness in the women's conferences, and in the organizations that feed them, a development carrying them from the stage of liter-ary-toned essays to the stage of scientific researches, and from the business of propaganda, protest, and verbal influence to the business of serious work — which alone makes woman man's equal, and toward which our women are marching with a firm step.

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