Abstract

Fundamentals in the Education of Women

The article discusses the education of women. The conditions under which women have been living and in constantly greater numbers going to work during 1917; and which must continue while the World War I lasts, are in many ways, an abrupt realization of the old visions and imaginings seen by the prophets of their economic independence. Women have suddenly found placed in their hands opportunities to learn and carry on occupations previously untried. Far oftener than before, they have found themselves able to draw a man's pay for doing a man's work. Responsibility not only for small and immediate groups, but for large and widely extended groups, has been given them, and the demand for their labor is constant, general and genuine.