Show womans place in home well not absolutely those who seek to refute man mans s contention that the place of women la Is in the home have plenty of ments to present today they can say that thirty eight per c cent ent of the 9 of income reported to the federal government in 1928 was received by women se enty seven thousand women had an annual income of over 5 the average being 19 of the stockholders in the united states 7 are women IN omen ar are e beneficiaries of 80 per cent of I 1 fe insurance outstanding women represent 80 pel pei cent of consumer buying power before the depression the weekly salary wilary of professional and business women in new loik loll city in was as 58 these facts about women were gathered in a research project under taken by mary alary sydney branch in tor in economics at NT estern col lege oxford ohio and fellow at the university of chicago for the chi omega sorority her find with complete satis re reports lorts were nere published by the university of cl bigo iress under the title women and wealth M ss branch in pi pies es enting I 1 er study of women momen as taxpayers own ers of 3 gainfully employed workers and as managers of the family income briefly traced the progress of comens w omen s rigl ts and eco position several generations ago she said a comans womans oman s econom in c position before the law was little better th thin in that of a child a or a lunatic single women couldn coulden t hold office and married women t linage tl air own property aven toda mis miss branci related some legal still re main in 27 states the right of jury service is withheld in three states the husband can take his wife s wages and in some states a bomin cannot go into business busine cs mit without holit con sent of her husband some of the other facts in women and wealth in 1 1600 COO representative illinois fac tortes women earned 59 per cent of the NN wage age paid to men in new york state it was v as 54 per cent of 10 women over fifteen years of age gainfully employed in 1930 28 9 per cent were married the average weekly salary paid to women factory worl ers in sip pi in 1998 ni wis is 8 29 and in rhode island 16 36 miss aliss branch concluded her study with the prediction that the economic status of women will continue to im prove that legal d against women will cease and that perhaps the increased expenditure ot of all aie wei i th by women will contribute toward building a better social and economic order |