In several countries there are special provisions giving extra time off to women who have household responsibilities.

What would our Constitution-bound law makers say to such a proposition, if any one had the hardihood to suggest it?
If this law had not been upheld by the United States Supreme Court the women of no State could have hoped to secure further legislation for women workers.

As it is, women in many States are preparing to establish what is now known as "The Oregon Standard," that is, a ten-hour day for all working women.
Nothing in connection with the woman movement is more significant, certainly nothing was more unexpected, than the voluntary abandonment, on the part of women, of class prejudice and class distinctions.

Where formerly the interest of the leisured woman in her wage-earning sisters was of a sentimental or philanthropic character, it has become practical and democratic.
The Young Women's Christian Association has had an industrial department, which up to a recent period concerned itself merely with the spiritual welfare of working girls.

Prayer meetings in factories, clubs, and classes in the Association headquarters, working-girls' boarding homes, and other philanthropic efforts were the limits of the Association's activities.