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Show WOMAN'S W0ELD. THE INDUSTRIAL CONDITION OF WOMEN WOM-EN AS VIEWED BY MR. WRIGHT. Dressing the Hair What Three Girls Did. England's Leading Beauty The Mary Morris Hamilton Statue An English Sarcastic Fling. Mr. Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, spoke in Washington recently on the "Industiial Condition of Women." Wom-en." It will be a surprise to those interested in-terested in labor economics to learn that hia conclusions based on recently collected data contradict the generally accepted idea that women are paid Ies , than men for the same kind of work. i Mr. Wright spoke also of the influ- j ence of the factory system compared j with the domestic as giving women a wider sphere of action. The industrial smancipation of woman may be followed fol-lowed by her political emancipation, or they may come together. The formei he looks upon as the most important phase in the development of the Ephere of women. By industrial emancipation he understood un-derstood to be meant the production of the highest type of womanhood, not alone as wageworkers, but in professional profes-sional careers. By means of the factory fac-tory system woman did not supersede man, but supplemented his efforts. In the year 1846, Harriet Martineau found in this country only seven employments open to women, loday there are many kinds of remnnerative employment which are open to women, and her growing prominence in all branches of trade, manufactures, agriculture and the professions impress her intellectually intellec-tually and morally. Mr. Wright asserted as-serted that the morals of the wage-workers wage-workers are equal to those under the old domestic system, and the mingling of the sexes in education and in the industries indus-tries enhanced the respect for women, and in consequence they occupied a higher plane. As to the compensation of women in the lower ranks of the employed, the opinion that women are not paid equal wages with men for the same work equally well done is erroneous. Woman Wom-an is a new economic factor. Her physical phys-ical endurance and education are defective, de-fective, and her equipment for lif work is insufficient, caused by the hope that her work will soon be interrupted by marriage. Mr. Wright expressed the opinion that the industrial development in the future would result in a decrease in the number of marriages and an increase in-crease in the number of divorces and would extend woman's intellectual opportunities op-portunities and establish her absolute social equality. The best result of modern tendencies would be the acknowledgment that woman wo-man is the rightful owner of herself and is entitled to recognition, which would bring about a purer, happier condition con-dition in the social world. |