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Show EFFECT OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY By REV. DR. SOCKMAN, New York (Methodist). 1 The entrance of women into business and industry has given them a new respect for their powers and has made a -profound difference in their uttitude toward marriage. The fact that two-thirda of the divorces in the United States are granted on demand of the wives does not prove thai two-thirds of the blame rests with the husbands. The root causes of many divorces runs back into the undisciplined and individualistic freedom of premarital living on the part of both women and men. After a youth spent in indulgence, too many prodigal daughters, discontented with their marriage, says in the words of the prodigal son, "I will arise and go to my father." 'The professional and business woman is ceasing to be conscious of her sex or to claim special consideration because of it. While women in politics may still be inclined to capitalize femininity, the novelty will soon be gone. It is in the less well paid forms of employment like the factory and domestic service that the struggle for women's rights still is chiefly to be fought. Justice in these realms can be secured only by the co-operation and recognition of women among themselves and by a Christianized imagination which can understand the emotional factors involved. |