Very rarely have club women even so much felicity as the New York State Federation, whose legislative chairman, Miss Emilie Bullowa, reported that she was unable to find a single unimportant inequality in the New York laws governing the property rights of women.
In most of the older States the property rights of married women are now fairly guaranteed, but the proud boast that in America no woman is the slave of her husband will have to be modified when it is known that in at least seventeen States these rights are still denied.
The husband absolutely controls his wife's property and her earnings in Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana, California, Arizona, North Dakota, and Idaho.

He has virtual control--that is to say, the wife's rights are merely provisional--in Alabama, New Mexico, and Missouri.
Women to control their own business property must be registered as traders on their own account in these States: Georgia, Montana, Nevada, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, and Virginia.
Nor are women everywhere permitted to work on equal terms with men.
[Illustration: MISS EMILIE BULLOWA.] There is a current belief, often expressed, that in the United States every avenue of industry is open to women on equal terms with men.

This is not quite true.

In some States a married woman may not engage in any business without permission from the courts.

In Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia this is the case.