CHAPTER VII. Utilization of Women in City Government

UTILIZATION OF WOMEN IN CITY GOVERNMENT

The modern city founded upon military ideals 180

Early franchise justly given to grown men on basis of military duty 181

This early test no longer fitted to the modern city whose problems are internal 182

Women’s experience in household details valuable to civic housekeeping. No method of making it available 184

Municipal suffrage to be regarded not as a right or a privilege, but as a piece of governmental machinery 187

Franchise not only valuable as exercised by educated women, matters to be decided upon too basic to be influenced by modern education 188

Census of 1900 shows greater increase of workingwomen than of men and increasing youth of working women 189

Concerted action of women necessary to bring about industrial protection 191

Women can control surroundings of their work only by means of franchise 192

Unfair to put task of industrial protection upon women’s trades unions as it often confuses issues 194

Closer connection between industry and government would result if working women were enfranchised 196

Failure to educate women to industrial life disastrous to industry itself and to women as employers 197

Situation must be viewed in relation to recent immigration and in connection with present stage of factory system in America 199

NEWER IDEALS OF PEACE