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What eight million women want

CHAPTER IX
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Every woman in the United States who employs one servant has a contribution to make to the movement.

The power to humanize domestic service in her own household is in every woman's hand.
Loneliness, social isolation, the ban of social inferiority,--these cruel and unreasonable restrictions placed upon an entire class of working women are out of tune with democracy.

The right of the domestic worker to regular hours of labor, to freedom after her work is done, to a place to receive her friends, must be recognized.

The self-respect of the servant must in all ways be encouraged.
Above all, the right of the domestic worker to social opportunity must be admitted.

It must be provided for.
Yonkers, New York, a large town on the Hudson River, points out one way toward this end.


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