There are more girls than boys in the high schools of the United States; more girls than boys in the higher grammar grades.

Fewer women than men are numbered among illiterate.

As for the great middle class of women, it is obvious that they are better read than their men.

Their specific knowledge of affairs may be less, but their general intelligence is not less than men's.
Increasingly women are ceasing to depend on men for physical support.
Increasingly even married women are beginning to think of themselves as independent human beings.

Their work of bearing and rearing children, of managing the household, begins to assume a new dignity, a real value, in their eyes.
In New Zealand at the present time statutes are proposed which shall determine exactly the share a wife may legally claim in her husband's income.