Show wo M III S lb L b r n I 1 9 ell go U API K n I 1 SPHERE K Is I 1 I 1 11 THE TO 0 oki t THIS THEORY IS SUPPORTED BY PROF weater WEATHERLY he holds industrial employment of women responsible for many divorces atlantic city dec 29 the transition state in which women econom icalla speaking are struggling at the present time was set forth by protestor protessor ulysses G weatherly horly ot of tho the university of indiana in on an interesting paper before tile tho american sociological society addressed to the question how does tho the access of women to 10 industrial occupation react upon the family 1 professor weatherly began by calling attention to the differentiation along sex lines which up to now has characterized the history of industry to the male said he rell fell those active pursuits connected with the securing of remote materials while to tho female fell those more stationary and connected with the fixed abode As conditions of living have become more stable and as machine production has developed develop ed man has taken over one by one those arts first agriculture ri then weaving pottery etc which were once peculiar care with the coming of the indus trial urban type of life after tho the industrial du revolution there was still more pronounced shifting of labor away from the home to more special specialized tz work places woman thus again surrendered this time to the factory many lines of activity formerly her own she would then cease to be economically functional unless she should fin fina a place in the new productive process or unless the purely domestic duties of motherhood home mak ill ing g and management should be so extended and intensified as to make for her an adequate career two classes must be clearly distinguished in considering the industrial situation 1 women who work because of actual necessity and 2 those who work or might work because they prefer employment to idle ress reas I 1 professor weatherly said that un married wamen in america Ani erica especially the native born contributed relatively little to the family treasure directly their income going mainly to secure supplementary advantages for themselves numerically important they are impermanent as a class and therefore weak bargainers bar gainers emi 1 is responsible for postponement t pon e of marriage but it renders women more independent of the single alternative ter ler native of marriage or independence employed married women are also weak as an industrial class because of jack of na because their 1 ass assumed fo to be merelyn supplementary I 1 tary to the family income advance in the age of marriage experience in and distaste for domestic duties uneconomic habits ot of spending and a more ready resort to divorce as a refugo refuge from domestic ills are some of the pathological results result 3 of the industrial employment of married women the resultant defective bome life reacts on the habits of the husband and is disastrous to hood the infant death rate Is high where married women are employed and children are deprived of the normal home discipline women have probably not largely displaced men in industry because although female wage earners have greatly increased much of the labor has merely been transferred from the homo home to the factory there Is still a generally lower wage wag e rate rat c for W women om than for men oven for equivalent work due to the lack of a serious fiss fissional ional spirit and of organization where women and children aro are employed the wages of men are sometimes lower than elsewhere not because ot of competition but because tho the total necessary living income I 1 is S not now dependent on the earnings of the single male breadwinner I 1 different Dlf ferent but less leas evil is the status of women without serious occupational interest the lowering lovering of the death rate and tile the partial socialization of child training have lessened the burdens of motherhood this release of energy make possible pos sibba now directions for wonie ns activity outside the narrow range assigned to thom them in the oriental type of family lack of occupational interest ot a normally abnormally developed instinct of workmanship 1 I al is detrimental to womans comans health dna and contentment it is a source of marital unrest and of social it accounts tor for much of the unfitness for service among tho the young unmarried women women have already taken over overia ir a halfhearted half hearted way some branches of industry it is desired that there should bo be such sach a social div division islon of labor as would definitely set asido aside for them certain occupations with cioper legal protection ani and with ade quate restraints and exemptions adjusted to the special needs need r of me motherhood t I 1 io r childbearing child bearing is to bo be reckoned as aa a port part of womans comans service to tho staw freedom Fro odom of choice of occupation now limited should be enlarged so that tt a wife or daughter wout would d bo be tree free to contribute her appropriate share to the family income in whatever form her tastes and capacity demand but domesticity will vill remain predominantly pred d vor comans womans wo mans nans field since it Is tho domestically inclined who marry gild aud determine the heredity tile impulse toward self bolt realization in fit inde ind pendent career Is growing but it is an acquired trait chiefly tho result ot of imitation whatever modification in the structure of tho the family has occurred as a result of tho the new industrial situation I 1 la if esq associated ocl itel with production but tho the family under modern condition Is primarily a unit not of production iut hut of and consumption has not yot yet revolutionized there Is morn loom for great development in the use iise of wealth both in consumption and the thrifty application of |