WHAT EIGHT MILLION

WOMEN WANT

WHAT EIGHT MILLION

WOMEN WANT

BY

RHETA CHILDE DORR

1910.

TO

THE AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES

OF THE EIGHT MILLION—

THE EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND MEMBERS

OF THE GENERAL FEDERATION OF

WOMEN'S CLUBS—

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

Many of the chapters contained in this volume appeared as special articles in Hampton's Magazine, to the editor of which the author's thanks are due for permission to republish.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

• I INTRODUCTORY
• II FROM CULTURE CLUBS TO SOCIAL SERVICE
• III EUROPEAN WOMEN AND THE SALIC LAW
• IV AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE COMMON LAW
• V WOMAN'S DEMANDS ON THE RULERS OF INDUSTRY
• VI MAKING OVER THE FACTORY FROM THE INSIDE
• VII BREAKING THE GREAT TABOO
• VIII WOMAN'S HELPING HAND FOR THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
• IX THE SERVANT IN HER HOUSE
• X VOTES FOR WOMEN
• XI IN CONCLUSION
• INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• CONVENTION OF CLUB WOMEN AT HOTEL ASTOR, NEW YORK
• CARPENTER SHOP, VACATION SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH
• CAPTAIN BALL ON GIRL'S FIELD, WASHINGTON PARK, PITTSBURGH
• STORY HOUR AT VACATION PLAYGROUND, CASTELAR SCHOOL YARD, LOS ANGELES, CAL.
• MRS. SARAH PLATT DECKER
• LADY ABERDEEN
• A "WOMEN'S RIGHTS" MAP OF THE UNITED STATES
• MISS EMILIE BULLOWA
• MRS. FREDERICK NATHAN
• MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN
• MISS ELIZABETH MALONEY
• A DEPARTMENT STORE REST-ROOM FOR WOMEN
• MISS MAUDE E. MINER
• IN THE NIGHT COURT, NEW YORK
• MISS SADIE AMERICAN
• A TYPICAL DANCE HALL
• AN UNTHOUGHT-OF PHASE OF THE SERVANT QUESTION
• ANOTHER SERIOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIAL QUESTION
• THE SERVANT GIRL AND THE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY
• SUFFRAGETTES IN LONDON ADVERTISING A MEETING
• MRS. HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH
• MEETING A RELEASED SUFFRAGETTE PRISONER
• THE WOMEN'S TRADES PROCESSION TO THE ALBERT HALL MEETING, APRIL