Between 1890 and 1900 the number of women in industry increased faster than the number of men in industry.

_It increased faster than the birth rate._ The number of women wage earners at the present date can only be estimated.

Nine million would be a conservative guess.

Nine million women who have forsaken the traditions of the hearth and are competing with men in the world of paid labor, means that women are rapidly passing from the domestic control of their fathers and their husbands.

Surely this is the most important economic fact in the world to-day.
Within the past twenty years no less than nine hundred and fifty-four thousand divorces have been granted in the United States.